res publica

No European settlement, order, empire, commonwealth, res publica, Reich, concert, entente, axis, alliance, coalition or union lasts for ever.

The other involved his fifteen years as a Boy Scout, developing a passion for public service—“for the res publica” is how he put it.

I have my own issues with rights language as overly legalistic and individualistic, providing insufficient account of the moral role of the res publica.

The res publica, the common weal, the phrase and the thought, meet one at every turn; and never were citizens more patient and tenacious combatants on their country’s behalf.

It is concerned, as the ancients had it, with 'that which is public or common', what the Greeks called τὸ κοινόν and the Romans res publica.