republican
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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
As the senator later put it, “A Government cannot be republican in form which sanctions inequality of rights.”
From Slate • Jun. 3, 2026
Alastair Campbell, a longstanding republican, posted: "Excellent speech by King Charles... Loved the confidence in British and European values."
From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026
John Adams called the Bible “the most republican book in the world.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
And character mattered because the fate of the American experiment with republican government still required virtuous leaders to survive.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Vocabulary lists containing republican
Lincoln Inaugural Address (March 1861)
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"What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" Vocabulary from the speech
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Chapter 3, Sections 1–2
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