Timeline for What is a Republic?
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| Dec 16, 2017 at 16:09 | history | edited | indigochild |
The political theory tag should be used for philosophic questions.
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| Dec 13, 2017 at 8:52 | vote | accept | Distic | ||
| Dec 13, 2017 at 8:34 | answer | added | Drunk Cynic | timeline score: -1 | |
| Dec 13, 2017 at 8:15 | comment | added | Distic | @indigochild: There is nothing about the US, while it is important here. | |
| Dec 13, 2017 at 5:12 | comment | added | indigochild | You linked to my question, which seems pretty similar. Is there something lacking in my poorly received answer? | |
| Dec 12, 2017 at 17:33 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackPolitics/status/940635853042454528 | ||
| Dec 12, 2017 at 9:35 | answer | added | Bregalad | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 11, 2017 at 22:24 | answer | added | tj1000 | timeline score: -4 | |
| Dec 11, 2017 at 18:41 | answer | added | hszmv | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 11, 2017 at 18:35 | comment | added | Distic | @fectin: Can you prove your claims? I'd like to move to the chat. | |
| Dec 11, 2017 at 13:03 | answer | added | Alice | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 8, 2017 at 20:06 | comment | added | fectin | @Distic sort of. At that point "democracy" was associated with mob rule and downfall (like "anarchy" now). De Tocqueville wrote partially to rehabilitate the term, by showing that it was actually working in the place it had been tried. "Republic" was deliberately selecting another term with fewer and different connotations (kind of like "minarchy"). I had a longer explanation originally, but felt it was inappropriate for comments. On which note: we should move to chat if you want to discuss further. | |
| Dec 8, 2017 at 18:08 | comment | added | Distic | @fectin: Toqueville wrote not so much about the Republic. Actually, while he praised what he calls "democracy", he did not like the republic so much. In european politics he advocated for constitutional monarchy but still liked democracy. So that is not really a good example, I think. | |
| Dec 8, 2017 at 18:08 | comment | added | Agent_L | Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was a monarchy and a republic (Res publica regni Polonici). The word doesn't have a defined meaning, everyone uses it to evoke good connotations to Romans, even though everyone is looking at a different aspect of their country. | |
| Dec 7, 2017 at 23:52 | comment | added | fectin | Your edit is right. Specifically, the founding fathers were pointing at Rome as their model, and deliberately not at Greece. Probably the better reference is how the constitution guarantees each state "a republican form of government," even though "Democracy" was the usual watchword (and you can see that reflected in de Tocqueville's Democracy in America). | |
| Dec 7, 2017 at 22:38 | comment | added | ohwilleke♦ | Keep in mind that like most words, "Republic" does not have a single meaning. For example, one sense of the word means "not a monarchy", while another sense of the word means "not a direct democracy." The meaning or sense of a word that applies in particular instance depends upon the context and is sometimes deliberately ambiguous. | |
| Dec 7, 2017 at 19:20 | comment | added | Mozibur Ullah | Republic = Re:public = when the public is important, ie the people. | |
| Dec 7, 2017 at 16:33 | history | edited | Distic | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 7, 2017 at 16:19 | comment | added | Distic | You are right. It is now correct | |
| Dec 7, 2017 at 16:18 | history | edited | Distic | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 7, 2017 at 16:10 | comment | added | origimbo | Have you got the title of Plato's thesis right? I thought Πολιτικά was Aristotle. | |
| Dec 7, 2017 at 15:51 | answer | added | FalseHooHa | timeline score: 6 | |
| Dec 7, 2017 at 15:39 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Dec 7, 2017 at 15:33 | answer | added | user4012 | timeline score: 9 | |
| Dec 7, 2017 at 15:32 | comment | added | Distic | And now? Do you want me to remove some of the items? Just say which. | |
| Dec 7, 2017 at 15:31 | history | edited | Distic | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 7, 2017 at 15:29 | comment | added | user4012 | I'm sorry, but IMHO, your latest edit just made the question appreciably more off-topic, as it's now more about linguistics and history of language than politics per se. | |
| Dec 7, 2017 at 15:27 | comment | added | Distic | @Machavity: I tryed to answer your concern. Let me know if it is good as it is now. | |
| Dec 7, 2017 at 15:25 | history | edited | Distic | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 7, 2017 at 15:24 | comment | added | user4012 | It's a good question but., as @Machavity said, too broad. I recommend splitting into independent questions | |
| Dec 7, 2017 at 15:23 | comment | added | user4012 | if you wanna boil your head even more, the original party was "Democratic-Republican Party" (whose sworn nemesis was "Federalist" party) | |
| Dec 7, 2017 at 15:13 | comment | added | Machavity | This is 4 questions, not one. The last 3 do not pertain to defining what a Republic is, but could be asked as separate questions. I'd narrow this down, or change them into a "Here's what I think it could be" piece. Otherwise, this looks like an essay writing assignment, not Q&A | |
| Dec 7, 2017 at 14:43 | history | asked | Distic | CC BY-SA 3.0 |