republican
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He rejoiced that “slavery has reached the limits of expansion” and that “the fate of the experiment of republican government” was no longer in danger.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
The vehicle was stopped during an operation targeting dissident republican activities on Wednesday but further details are just emerging.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
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
Black Americans who fought to make the United States into a multiracial democracy insisted that states that denied Black Americans full voting rights were not republican governments.
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2026
He doubted whether the republican principles planted by the founding generation would grow in foreign soil.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
The term "dissident republicans" describes a range of individuals who do not accept the Good Friday Agreement - the 1998 peace deal which ended the worst of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 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 French Revolution itself had become a domestic issue and was to inject more passion into the strife between the monocrats and the republicans.
From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Chinard, Gilbert
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Lincoln Inaugural Address (March 1861)
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Chapter 3, Sections 1–2
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