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 citien is not a party to the government which remains titular in relationship to his rights because his civil rights are "not connected to the administrtion of government".[2]
In order that a citizens' rights not become "connected to the adminiistration of government". [2] the public affairs of society[3] and the known duties to his fellowman must also be maintained by the voluntary "deeds" of the people.
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 oppinion of Democracy no one could honestly see the office of the president would be titular.
- ↑ 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 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.
- ↑ 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".