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'''Republicanism''' is a [[political]] [[ideology]] in opposition to [[monarchy]] and [[tyranny]]. Republicans hold that a political system must be founded upon the [[rule of law]], the [[rights]] of individuals, and the [[sovereignty of the people]]. It is also closely connected to the idea of [[civic virtue]], the responsibility citizens owe to their republic, and to opposition to corruption, or the use of public power to benefit the politician.

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Republican emerged first in [[Ancient Greece]], particularly [[Athens]]. It flourished during the [[Roman Republic]] aboutt a century before Christ, led by such statesmen as [[Cicero]] and [[Cato the Younger]].

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===Machiavelli===

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Republicanism was revived during the [[Renaissance]], especially by political thinkers who promoted [[Civic Humanism]] in Florence such as [[Niccolò Machiavelli]].

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Was Machiavelli a Machiavellian? In ''The Prince'' he showed how an absolute monarch can use tyranny and deceit to get his way. But in other books he took an opposite view, emphasizing that when a state does not have a prince (a powerful king), the people rule in a "republic" and they must have civic virtue for the republic to survive. Through his book on Roman history ''Discourses on Livy'' Machiavelli has been a major positive influence of modern conservative thought. He took the lead in defining what civic virtue means for a citizen of a republic--a state where the people are sovereign and not some king. For example a citizen has the duty to oppose corruption and when called upon fight for his country. His ideas on [[republicanism]] strongly influenced British, French and American thought on the duties of the good citizen, and can be traced through American history from the days of [[Benjamin Franklin]] and [[James Madison]] down to the 21st century.<ref>See Paul A. Rahe, ed. ''Machiavelli's Liberal Republican Legacy'' (2005).</ref>

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===Britain===

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The British overthrew and executed King [[Charles I]] in 1649, and established a republican government under [[Oliver Cromwell]]. After Cromwell died in 1658 the republic collapsed, the monarchy was restored, and republican ideas were driven out of the mainstream of British political thought. They did not disappear, but were promulgated by the Whigs Country Party, whose pamphlets were eagerly read by the American colonists. Thus English political journalists [[John Trenchard]] and [[Thomas Gordon]] published anonymously ''Cato's Letters'' (1720-23). These were 138 letters or short essays that expounded on liberty and republicanism and which greatly influenced the American Founding Fathers and [[libertarian]] thought into the 21st century.<ref> See Ronald Hamowy, "Cato's Letters" in Hamowy, ed. ''Encyclopedia of Libertarianism'' (2008) p. 54-55 [http://books.google.com/books?id=yxNgXs3TkJYC&pg=PA54&dq=republicanism+%22cato+the+younger%22&lr=&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=2005&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=2009&num=30&as_brr=0#v=onepage&q=republicanism%20%22cato%20the%20younger%22&f=false online]</ref>

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Republicanism became the driving force behind the [[American Revolution|American]] and [[French Revolution|French Revolutions]]. In the 20th centuries absolute monarchies almost disappeared, and the surviving constitutional monarchs were nominal heads of countries that were basically republican in all but name. Canada and Australia, for example, still have a king ([[Queen Elizabeth II]]) but they largely ignore her and show little interest in royalty or aristocracy.

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==United States==

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Republicanism is the political value system that has dominated American political thought since the [[American Revolution]]. It stresses ''liberty'' and ''rights'' as central values, makes the people as a whole sovereign, rejects aristocracy and inherited political power, expects citizens to be independent and calls on them to perform civic duties, and is strongly opposed to corruption. The American version of republicanism was formed by the [[Founding Fathers]] in the 18th century and was based on English models as well as Roman and European ideas. It formed the basis for the fighting the British in 1775, the [[Declaration of Independence|declaring independence]] (1776) and creating a powerful written Constitution (1787); it appears in highly influential statements from [[Abraham Lincoln]] and others.

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Republicanism is not the same as democracy, for republicanism asserts that people have inalienable rights that cannot be voted away by a majority of voters. In a true democracy, the voters have no limits. Republicanism and democracy are two political philosophies (along with classical liberalism) that have dominated all American politics. Indeed the terms are enshrined in the names of the two major parties, but both parties in practice combine both republicanism and democracy.

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The republican ideal of civic duty was succinctly expressed in 1961 by the Democrat [[John F. Kennedy]]: "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

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==The American Revolution==

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===Republican

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