republican
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And as Wood explains in his great book, “The Radicalism of the American Revolution,” these ideas would spread and unleash the republican spirit of free men and women who built America.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Independence required Americans to believe in the risky project of devising a new, republican constitution.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
For example, the Colored People’s Convention that met in 1865 in Charleston, South Carolina, argued that equal voting rights were “inherent and essential to every republican form of government.”
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2026
The punk rock republican says he can be the "Kingmaker" as Plaid Cymru looks to lead the next Welsh government with Rhun ap Iorwerth as first minister.
From BBC ● May 10, 2026
He fulfilled his obligations as a “singular character” so capably that he seemed to defy the republican tradition itself.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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The prosecution suggested that the disorder which broke out had been deliberately orchestrated by dissident republicans to coincide with the presence of MTV.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
That leaves many Irish republicans in an unexpected position.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 2026
Speaking to the PA news agency, O'Neill said she appreciated some republicans would be "uncomfortable" with her attendance, but she insisted it was nevertheless the "right thing do do".
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2024
Militant Irish republicans had been paying close attention to Carson’s tactics — which anticipated Mao Zedong’s maxim about the source of political power — and would eagerly emulate his example in the years ahead.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2024
The friends of the old régime, however, nowhere showed the same energy and conviction as the republicans who stood by Floriano.
From The South American Republics Part I of II by Dawson, Thomas C.
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Lincoln Inaugural Address (March 1861)
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Chapter 3, Sections 1–2
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