Republican
Republican, generally means someone who supports a republican model of government as opposed to, say, a monarchy or a totalitarian government. The rare exception being Poland where the country was, until 1795, officially a constitutional republic but with an elected monarch.
History
Some countries have political parties with this name, an example being the Republican Party (United States). Republican and terms such as Republicanism have sometimes refers to sometimes violent opposition to an existing monarch and monarchism, although the actual goals may be broader than only removing the monarch, such as the independence of a region or a more general political revolution. One example is the Republican side during the Spanish Civil War which was largely socialist and communist driven, the monarch having already abdicated.
Disambiguation
- Advocates of a republic, a form of government based on the rule of laws, not a monarchy or dictatorship.
- Republicanism, the ideology in support of republics.
- Advocates of the abolition of a monarchy; for example, the Australian Republican Movement and the British republican movement.
- A member of a Republican Party:
- List of Republican Parties, a complete listing.
- Republican Party (United States), a conservative party in the U.S.
- Fianna Fáil, a centrist Irish party also known as the Republican Party.
- List of Republican People's Parties, a complete listing.
- Institutions or supporters of particular governments that called themselves republics, including:
- Roman Republic, as well as supporters of the Republic during the Roman Empire.
- Federal Republic of Germany
- Second Spanish Republic, during the Spanish Civil War.
- Various French Republics, most notably the First Republic established during the French Revolution.
- Irish Republicanism, tied up in the Irish independence movement (IRA).
- Republican River, a river in Colorado, Nebraska, and Kansas in the United States.
- The Republican – a newspaper published in Springfield, Massachusetts