republican

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Persuasion, he rightly believed, isn’t an ornament but the heart of republican leadership.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

And his desire for secular immortality didn’t mean he was pretending to have lofty republican sensibilities.

From Slate • Feb. 16, 2026

Scappaticci was raised in the Irish republican stronghold of west Belfast where he would find work as a bricklayer.

From BBC • Feb. 8, 2026

Yet it was precisely this world—hierarchical, steeped in pageantry, encouraging of free inquiry and progress—that produced the Industrial Revolution and the republican structure of government that took root in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

In most European states, he went on to argue, it was probably necessary for the monarchy to remain hereditary for the foreseeable future, in order to permit a more gradual transition to full-blown republican principles.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis