republican

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During Elizabeth II’s 70-year reign, the longest in over 1,000 years of royal rule, republican forces opposing the crown were essentially invisible.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

Making a government—a good, republican government, at least—requires nothing short of a miracle.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

And his desire for secular immortality didn’t mean he was pretending to have lofty republican sensibilities.

From Slate • Feb. 16, 2026

Scappaticci was raised in the Irish republican stronghold of west Belfast where he would find work as a bricklayer.

From BBC • Feb. 8, 2026

And had that, in fact, not occurred during and after the American Revolution, with the “band of brothers” he and Adams had come to symbolize being the obvious beneficiaries of the republican selection process?

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis