Template:Republicdefined
Changing Definitions
A REPUBLIC has been defined as a "form of government in which the administration of affairs is open to all the citizens. In another sense, it signifies the state, independently of its form of government" if that status is maintained "by the deeds" of individual citizen.[1]
In a republic the citizen is not a party to the limited representative government agencies, which remains titular in relationship to his rights, because his civil rights are "not connected to the administration of government".[2]
Because the rights of the individual are "not connected to the administration of government"[2] and "the administration of affairs is open" to him then he must perform those known duties to his fellow man[3] "independently of [his] form of government"[1] through voluntary systems, institutions, and mutual associations also separate from the administrative State.
In order that a citizens' rights not become "connected to the administration of government" [2] the public affairs of society[4] must be attend by, of, and for the people.
This was The Blessed Strategy of [[Abraham, [[Moses]), and Jesus who set men free. The known duties to our fellowman must be maintained by the voluntary "deeds" of the people according to the perfect law of liberty with diligence and perseverance for society to remain free.
In the Libera res publica of Tacitus in which the people are individually "free from things public" the more the people depend upon the power of government for their welfare the less free they become.
Polybius warned that when the "masses" develop 'an appetite for benefits and the habit of receiving them at the expense of others they change into a rule of force and violence degenerating into perfect savages' unable to sustain a state of liberty.
Republic in 1965 had become “A state or nation in which the supreme power rests in all the citizens… A state or nation with a president as its titular head; distinguished from monarchy.” Webster’s New Dictionary unabridged 2nd Ed. 1965.
While the definition had not changed as much as the view and opinion of Democracy no one could honestly see the office of the president would be titular.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 REPUBLIC. A commonwealth; that form of government in which the administration of affairs is open to all the citizens. In another sense, it signifies the state, independently of its form of government. 1 Toull. n. 28, and n. 202, note. In this sense, it is used by Ben Johnson. Those that, by their deeds make it known, whose dignity they do sustain; And life, state, glory, all they gain, Count the Republic's, not their own, Vide Body Politic; Nation; State." A LAW DICTIONARY ADAPTED TO THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND OF THE SEVERAL STATES OF THE AMERICAN UNION by John Bouvier, Revised Sixth Edition, 1856 https://www.1215.org/lawnotes/bouvier/bouvierr.txt
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Citizen: “Civil rights are such as belong to every citizen of the state or country, or, in a wider sense to all its inhabitants, and are not connected with the organization or the administration of government. They include the rights of property, marriage, protection by laws, freedom of contract, trial by jury, etc.” Right. In Constitutional Law. Black’s 3rd p. 1559.
- ↑ Duties to his fellow man include the weightier matters of justice and mercy. "Justice" includes judicial administration Jury nullification, protection from known crimes through citizens police powers, invasions and disasters through the militia. The last element of justice would include the overlapping duty of mercy. "Mercy" includes welfare, aid, and assistance for those in legitimate need through a charitable daily ministration, FEMA.
- ↑ In Philippians 3:20 we are told "For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:" The word "conversation" is from the Greek politeuma meaning "the administration of civil affairs" derived from the word polites meaning "citizen".