In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.    From LearnThat.org.  [Cicero (106-43 BC)]

The head of state in a republic is usually a president.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

But the term republic is as foreign to our representatives as the term wendigo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Capitalism Magazine (CapMag.com)] Reference

This empire, he was obliged to say, for the term republic had gone out of fashion.    From Wordnik.com.  [A biography of John Randolph, of Roanoke] Reference

Indeed, it must be acknowledged, that the term republic is of very vague application in every language.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4] Reference

Those fighting for the term republic have a distinctly different view of the role of government than those fighting for democracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy] Reference

Def: The view that a republic is the best form of government.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Bush Said His Nominees Won’t Change Their Minds In 20 Years] Reference

A "republic" is a particular form of democracy where laws are passed by elected representatives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barbara Forrest Speaks Out] Reference

No good citizen can hold back his tears over the unhappy state to which the republic is abandoned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moniteur/Morning Chronicle] Reference

But what right, may I ask, have you, who believe in state sovereignty, you, a citizen of what you term the republic of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tupelo] Reference

"On this view of the import of the term republic, instead of saying, as has been said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slugger O'Toole] Reference

Machiavelli's republic is a classical, mixed republic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liberal Internatinalism: Peace, War and Democracy] Reference

Im thinking his nym at free republic is Parrot Anything.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Bachmann: ‘We’re hoping that President Obama’s policies don’t succeed.’] Reference

That's called a republic, that is based on the rule of law.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

France, the word republic was now seldom spoken but in derision.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847] Reference

Besides, the ogre scares them away. the republic is lost, so there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » How to Avoid Being Shot by Right-Wing Pundits] Reference

There has to be a viable third party soon, or the republic is dead!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Town hall anger echoed in Congress] Reference

We lost free media in Czech republic, all must be political-correct.    From Wordnik.com.  [Serbianna.com] Reference

Our republic is based on a peaceful transition of power through voting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reports: Big labor leader to step down] Reference

The difference between a democracy and a republic is DIRECT LEGISLATION.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laws Direct from Voters] Reference

He cared not for the word republic, so as it was well with the commonwealth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Milton] Reference

The word republic is merely a designation of a country’s form of government.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » CNN poll: 47 percent of Americans want to repeal health care reform.] Reference

I liked how the nation had regressed back in republic states because of the fear.    From Wordnik.com.  [REVIEW: Galileo's Children edited by Gardner Dozois] Reference

One of the great strengths of a properly functioning republic is self correction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Senate Cover-up Committee update:] Reference

At the word republic, he rose, or, to speak more correctly, he sprang to his feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Misérables] Reference

At the word republic, he rose, or, to speak more correctly, be sprang to his feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Miserables, Volume III, Marius] Reference

The strongest case for a republic is that monarchy is an inherently ridiculous system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-04-01] Reference

Yes I know what a banana republic is Chase … Do you know what our trade defecit is.?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » ThinkFast: July 20, 2006] Reference

Any annoy over a state of a republic is starting to be visited upon a obligatory party.    From Wordnik.com.  [2010: An Early Snapshot of the Electoral Landscape] Reference

He had also marked the word republic thus X, where it was applied to the French republic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4] Reference

He had also marked the word republic thus ¥, where it was applied to the French republic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Anas] Reference

The slaves’ republic is in any case wrecked rather by hedonism than by the struggle for power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arthur Koestler] Reference

Moreover, a republic is not a democracy (she doesn't even know what form of government we have!).    From Wordnik.com.  [Barbara Forrest Speaks Out] Reference

Today, the terms republic and democracy are virtually interchangeable, but historically the two differed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Jenson, I Agree] Reference

Plainly the word republic has no further effect beyond that of excluding the idea of a recognised dynasty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2)] Reference

The grass in the Peoples republic is nice and gree, wish I could say the same of the prarie grass in easern CO.    From Wordnik.com.  [Muley Fawns Too Cute for Field & Stream?] Reference

Every hour that the coming of such a republic is shortened means just so much less agony for the peoples of the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spirit of Lafayette] Reference

Nor is this ringing of the changes on the word republic confined to the oratory of presidential and ministerial junketings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891] Reference

Delassus informed me, empowered by the French prefect at New Orleans to receive the city for the French republic from the Spanish.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference

The word republic possessed then, as now, a delicious attraction for people who had grievances; and although, after the conquest of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saracinesca] Reference