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• n  a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
• n  a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch
  the head of state in a republic is usually a president

• The republic has been on a collision course with the Kremlin ever since Gamsakhurdia's nationalist coalition won an election victory last October.
• A sovereign democratic republic, in the Hindi language, is Sampoorna Prabhutva Sampanna Lokatantratmaka Ganarajya.
• A republic, if you can keep it.

• democracy
• commonwealth

News & Articles

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• Republic Airways Reports May 2013 Traffic
  Republic Airways Holdings , today reported preliminary passenger traffic results for May 2013. The Company generated approximately 1.7 billion revenue passenger miles , a decrease of 1% from May 2012, on a 2% reduction in capacity.
  June 11, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
• Republic Airways May Traffic Down 1%
  Republic Airways May Traffic Down 1%
  June 11, 2013 - Nasdaq
• Republic Wireless No Contract Phone Gets Even Better: New Summer Pricing on the Motorola DEFYTM XT Reduces Cost of ...
  Republic Wireless offers the nation’s lowest cost, unlimited everything, no contract phone. (PRWeb June 11, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/no_contract_phone/cheapest_smartphone/prweb10821983.htm
  June 11, 2013 - PRWeb

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in International Herald Tribune
  The United States wants the Islamic Republic of Iran to take its rightful place in the community of nations. You have that right -- but it comes with real responsibilities,Obama said in an unprecedented video message released to Middle East...
• Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in CBS News
  In the elections, voters had different tendencies, but they equally believe in the ruling system and support the Islamic Republic,said Khamenei, who is Iran's ultimate authority.
• Roza Otunbayeva in The Associated Press
  We have passed the new constitution for our republic,Otunbayeva said at a news conference. "It will not be an interim but a legal and legitimate government ...... we are leaving the word interim behind."