10 sentences with “republican”

The equites constituted the business class of republican Rome that supported the elites while receiving various commercial and mercantile concessions.

After the king's execution in 1649, England became a dictatorship (technically republican) under Cromwell, who assumed the title of Lord Protector in 1649.

Despite his obvious personal power, Augustus found it useful to maintain the façade of the Republic, along with republican values such as thrift, honesty, bravery and honour.

Despite the obvious success of the republican system, however, there were inexorable problems that plagued the Republic throughout its history, most obviously the problem of wealth and power.

In 509 BC. (according to their own legends), the Romans overthrew the last Etruscan king and established a fully republican form of government, with elected senators making all major political decisions.

He used the Senate to maintain a façade of republican government, instructing senators on what actions to take; a good example is that the Senate "asked" him to remain consul for life, which he graciously accepted.

Only Rousseau was bold enough to advocate a republican form of government as a viable alternative to monarchy, and his political ideas were far less well known during his lifetime than his ruminations on education, nature and morality.

At the same time, the great political project of the 19th century, republican democracy, seemed deeply disappointing to many Europeans, who had seen it degenerate into partisan bickering that could not prevent the Great War and its terrible consequences.

After the First World War, almost every government in Europe, including Germany, was a republican democracy based on the rule of law (liberalism). Even the socialists had reason to celebrate: there was a nominally Marxist state in Russia and socialist parties were powerful and militant throughout Europe.

While echoing the idea that the Republic still survived, he in fact replaced the republican system with one in which a single sovereign ruled over the Roman state. In doing so, Octavian founded the Roman Empire, a political entity that would survive for nearly five centuries in the West and over a thousand years in the East.