00716892-a 'having the supreme power lying in the body of citizens entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them or characteristic of such government';
having the supreme power lying in the body of citizens entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them or characteristic of such government
― the United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government- United States Constitution; a very republican notion; so little republican and so much aristocratic sentiment- Philip Marsh; our republican and artistic simplicity-Nathaniel Hawthorne