Why are some countries called "Republics?"
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- Опубліковано 27 кві 2018
- What does it mean when a country is called "the republic of..." What kind of political system does a country have when it uses a "republic" style government? Learn all about it in this video!
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I thought republics had clones and jedis and bad dialogue
well...
Well... that was _a_ republic, although it is a rather simple definition.
and THE SENATE
how dare you
Bad dialogue except for the third one
Whenever you hear “democratic” and “republic” together, you know they are anything but. They should have added just “Free” in there for good measure, just to show off everything they are not
I’m from the Democratic Republic of Congo and you’re absolutely right.
Democratic republic = dictatorship.
People's Republic is even worse.
@@Voyager2525 hey hey, my country Bangladesh has it.
@@sodoff4451 sri lanka and timor leste has democratic in their name and they are pretty democratic it's pretty weird how they vary
Whoa, I just learned way more about "republic's" than I ever thought I would or wanted to. Good video.
Ryan C I literally failed history in school twice because I hated history and politics, did bad in civics too, but for some reason I can’t stop watching these videos it must be his personality
Same
Democracy:Rule by the People
Representative Democracy:A Democracy ruled by elected Politicians
Direct Democracy:A Democracy were the people vote on the laws
Republic:A Nation without a Monarchy(Because we don’t have any other term for that and because definitions change)
Dictatorship:A Republic with one Totalitarian leader
Monarchy:A Nation where a person of Nobility is the Head of State or Ruler(Just because Kim Jong Un inherited his rule doesn’t mean he’s a monarch as he has no noble blood(inheritance doesn’t even matter as both The Holy Roman Empire and Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth had an Elected Monarch))
Absolute Monarchy:A Monarchy were the Monarchy has Absolute power
Constitutional Monarchy:A Monarchy that is limited by a constitution
These are the most reasonable definitions in the comments so far. (Reasonable meaning that I like them. :) )
Though regarding HRE, the emperor didn't have to be of noble blood (though I think in practice all of them were).
Regarding North Korea. The situation there is reminiscent of early imperial Rome. They pretended that they still were a republic and the "emperor" just had a bunch of titles that didn't sound monarchical and de jure the successor didn't have to be the previous emperor's offspring, but de facto the position was passed around in the family (if not always to the emperor's children).
One problem with the definition of “republic”. Some countries call themselves republics, despite not being one (By the definition you provided).
Napoleaon I was technically legitimized by the pope
Direct Democracy: Two wolves and a sheep deciding on what's for dinner!
A political scientist just died because of the absurd definitions you've given
I've found the term "Representative Republic" to be useful, both for a definition and in governing. The founding fathers of the US actually feared direct democracy as much as monarchy, as direct democracy can be equated to mob rule. One of the compromises was a layer of professional politicians that would run the country for the people while still being accountable to them. I'm not saying if was a good idea or not, just stating the fact, so please don't hijack this post with discussion about that :)
jake jones True. Women cam vote, blacks can vote. Heck they are not slaves anymore. We really have come a long way from 1700s.
+Josh Ratcliffe
Certainly yours were wrong on how they teach English as a second language, eh?
Per the OP: " I'm not saying if was a good idea or not, just stating the fact, so please don't hijack this post with discussion about that"
Pretty much every law in Switzerland is voted on by the people. (Just a short way to explain it)
the founding fathers didn't just fear direct democracy they feared common people; hance why there were a lot of suffrage moventes from black vote to lowering the vote to 18 years of age.
I'm between that and "Constitutional Republic", because even if representation of the voters is an important part, more important part is that Republics have a Constitution that defines and limits the government, and provides a set of core human rights to their citizens.
Also, that would make a more coherent "Constitutional Republics/Monarchies"* group with some attributes that are shared (Constitution that limit the state and Human Rights) and some that aren't (Head of State), and a group of "Republics/Monarchies" that don't share that attribute.
*This should include nations that have uncodified constitutions (UK, Israel, etc) but they have defined and separate government branches and human rights provisions (signed the UDHR, for example)
I really like the way these videos about politics make us think about things we usually find obvious, but they are not. In Brazil we had the two kinds of government, as we became independent from Portugal we turned into an empire and some years after into a republic. I used to work with an American guy and he didn't understand how it was possible, a country become independent as a monarchy. Brazil has some strange features in its history
I always thought of a Republic as being a system where sovereignty is embedded in the citizenry and not in a particular individual or dynasty (hence why in the UK we refer to the Queen as "sovereign")
After getting my wisdom teeth removed, a video by JJ is just what I need.
Lindsay Manning oh man, I had that. That’s the worst! Get well soon!
J.J. McCullough thank you, I believe I will probably get a lot better in the next couple of days.
@@JJMcCullough I got my wisdom teeth removed a month and a half ago, and it sucked
Bruh what
In Portuguese, at least for a certain period (late 18th century), the word "Republic" meant something like "Public Estate", regardless of the type of head of state we had (our first ruling queen, D. Maria I) and the way we chose our government (we didn't: it was an absolute monarchy). That's how one of the titles of D. Maria I was "Protector of the Republic": as an absolute monarch, she was supposedly the sole protector of the nation interests, the "public estate" - the "Republic".
GazilionPT that’s very interesting!
Or maybe she was hijacking the word for political security: she ascended to the throne in 1777, the year after the start of the American Revolution; by framing the word "Republic" in a manner that suited her interests, she would deflect any problems that might arise by the fact that some colonists, somewhere far away, were trying to forge a form of government they called a Republic...
3:08 I believe the official title of Canada is still the Dominion of Canada. It had just (rather unfortunately) fallen out of use but still remains the official title since no legislation or government motions had been passed to change the name.
I'd recommend the term "Commonwealth".
It seems to me a very similar word to republic in meaning. Common Wealth, Res Publica.
australia uses it
If Germany had a monarch, then there title would be Kaiser or Kaiserin.
2:57
Or, if they wanted to go with just "King" rather than "emperor"(which is what "Kaiser" means), Koenig...
Interesting video JJ!
Love the Super Mario World sound effects as always 😆
From the Republic of Ireland
Though officially, it's just "Ireland" isn't it?
seneca983 yea, it's only called the Republic of Ireland to distinguish it from the island of Ireland, which also contains Northern Ireland, a province of the U.K.
Firehoof Yes exactly that's it's official name but just Ireland in general speeh etc
Pintofmilk The official name and the name used in general speech are both just "Ireland". Republic of Ireland is sometimes used for the reasons Firehoof mentioned, but it's not the official name.
seneca983 The football/Soccer Team Is Called Republic so I'm kind of confused 😆
What happened to the Dominion of Canada?
pie4strength That title was officially phased out in the 1950s because it reflected Canada’s colonial status.
Happy Fox thats pretty much the defanition of colonize
J.J. McCullough What should be Canada's official name now in your opinion?
Canada, like much of the non-tropical/non-sub-tropical "New World" (became known to Europeans after 1491) is a country made by taking most to all of the land from the First Peoples/Nations and bringing lots of mainly European settlers to make a new country (or in the case of Russia, a vastly bigger existing country). It differs from the vast majority of the Asian and African colonies and many of the Latin American colonies where the Europeans were always vastly outnumbered under colonialism, but it is still a major form of Colonialism.
Uhhh...and the First Nations, what were they? Chopped liver?
Another fantastic video J.J. great job!!
Omg i love your videos so much! Continue making videos
I just forwarded this video to all my friends who teach social studies/civics/government. The whole democracy-or-republic confusion has gone on long enough! 😂 and it is a very good point that the term has been reduced down over the years.
What should be Canada's official name? Confederation of Canada sounds nice
Actually I think Confederation of Canada was simply an event in Canadian history where they all decided to be one country.
Canada has historically been called the Dominion of Canada, but I don't think it was ever the "official" name.
Well it pretty much was the term to be used as it was a Dominion of the British Empire.
Islamic Republic of Canada
The preamble to Canada's constitution refers to the "Dominion of Canada". That's as official as it gets.
k so i just invented the term 'elective conmissurate.' its derived from latin 'conmissura' meaning 'joining together' and i know that your computer will think its wrong but it could work.
Cool vids!
You had to use that picture of Sipilä, did you? The one picture where his promise didn’t hold truth for long...
Mikko Koskinen I’m glad you noticed that!
Mikko Koskinen, what was the promise?
Henrique Pimenta Gomes he promised not to cut on education, but then made about a 680 million euro cut
Josh Ratcliffe that’s true indeed
Fucking Sipilä. We need Jussi Halla-Aho now!
Fun fact: in polish, republic is "republika", but when we're talking about Republic of Poland, we never call it "Republika Polski", but "Rzeczpospolita" instead. It could mean any republic at some point of time, (for example Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth's name was "Rzeczpospolita Obojga Narodów", which means "Republic of two/both nations") but later it changed it's meaning and now if somebody says just "Rzeczpospolita", it's obvious that they mean Poland.
Thanks for clearing this up.
usually fast talking videos with minimal graphics fly right past me, but i absorbed all in the info in this vid. thanks for it!
The high quality of this video literally startled me at the beginning.
I have been a subscriber for a while and each of your videos expands my knowledge 10 folds.
Anil Joseph You’re so nice! What should I do a video about next?
J.J. McCullough your thought of communism?
That’s not saying much then 😕
Hi! This is my favorite channel! I’m going to send you something from New Hampshire
As far as I can tell the modern use of republic was older than WW1 and generally was in reference to the fact that republics were not the norm, they were, in fact, quite rare. Thus it was useful to have a term to describe this group of countries such as Switzerland and the United States and (briefly) France. But after the second world war monarchies basically just died out and so republics became the norm.
I do though think that the modern definition has some use as it tends to describe to itself how a country views things like power and inheritance. Republics tend to (at least officially) proclaim a firm equality amongst all its citizens and holds no special privilege's for them whereas Monarchies tend to be much more comfortable with it. This though then begins to lean into complex questions around what a democratic society should or shouldnt be so I will move on.
Lastly I would add that while Canada doenst have an official longer term it does have a de facto one in the form of the Dominion of Canada, which is still sometimes used by the Canadian government in vague contexts. It does lead to my point though about de facto vs de jure, with North Korea. While it wants to be and legally is a "republic" by any reasonable metric it is a monarchy, I think this is less of a condemnation of the definition of republic you pushed against and more against how we envision de facto uses vs de jure uses.
Can you talk about why some countries have multiple capitals
There a lot of them, actually. South Africa, the Netherlands, Malaysia, etc. There’s a whole list on Wikipedia.
I think the term you're looking for is "Indirect Democracy," or "Representative Democracy."
nice vid very informative....Interesting concepts the Gov run by the People, which country does that?
Wow your so clever,
I still find it a job to understand.
Even after your very good explanation .
Honestly, I like the 1st one the best
Can you please do more flag videos? And / or political videos that do not talk about countries but about systems ...etc ?! (Like this one)
I quite like Commonwealth which translates roughly to “the general good” and is used to describe a community of entities working towards a common goal for “the general good” of everyone within that community.
I think the traditional 'res publica' is more concrete than "the general good". "The general good" is a bit to creepy to me (sounds like communism).
Best Video to understand.
Why do you always get the British Flag wrong??
You leave out the cross of St Patrick.
Is that a deliberate political ploy?
TheJalipa Seems deliberate. It’s in every video I can remember when he mentions the UK.
louman-eightyfour
Is JJ A Conservative Irish Nationalist?
It was pointed out to me when shared one of his Vids.
And unfortunately used to undermine the validity of the of the video.
I don't mind JJ being sympathetic to Irish Nationalism. But I think petty moves like that are counterproductive.
TheJalipa I think he does that for the exact OPPOSITE reason of why you think he does it. He simply doesn’t care. Like you’re all here talking about “Irish sympathy “ when it literally doesn’t matter. It’s not like UK and Ireland hate eachother in real terms, nor are they any different politically or in their creed. Nor is the living standards any different. Northern Ireland seceding to Ireland would have noticeably unnoticeable effect on the people. This whole thing of Scotland Ireland Wale independence movement is astoundingly unremarkable.
TheJalipa Odd if he is, most Irish nationalist tend to be left wing commie wackos
Adam Smith
You need to read about Irish Nationalism.
De Valera for example most definitely a hardcore Catholic Conservative. Indeed the whole modern social history of the Free State and subsequent Republic has been dominated by Conservatism.
Anri-divorce laws, the politically dominant position of the Catholic Church in the Irish state. These were all imposed on Southern Ireland after independence. By Irish Nationalist Conservatives.
The "modern" Sinn Fein (they have no links other than name with the original, despite claims to the contrary) formed in 1969 have positioned themselves as a "Social Democrat" Party.
But in policy they are strongly Socially Conservative. Ironically Their policies are virtually identical to their Unionist counterparts the DUP
Sinn Fein did famously they developed contacts with many on the British Left - like Jeremy Corbyn.
Equally there always been Left Wing Irish Nationalists.
The whole 1969 split between the "Official" IRA (Anti treaty Die Hards) and the Provisional IRA was partly about Marxism.
The "Officials" had become dominated by Marxists. The Provos opposed Marxism as Anti Irish. Then funded themselves by drugs trade - go figure.
Militancy was also an issue. The Provos and political wing Sinn Fein supported re-starting the "Armed Struggle" against Britain. The officials didn't.
In 1974 a Militant Marxist Irish Nationalists group was formed. The INLA - who forged links with other Left Wing Terrorist Movements like the Red Brigade and PLO.
The Provos also had links with these groups. And more recently (2016) a bunch of Provos were caught in FARC territory in Colombia. But that might be the Drugs Trade
Thank you for this! Whenever I try to understand what words like republic mean, most resources act like these words are so well defined and it leads me to giving up on understanding them. So thank you for reaffirming that most of the world doesn't actually know what they're talking about, as they definite republic so ... definitively.
This saved me time by having me not have to just search it up.
In Poland our translation of republic is "Republika" and it's used to describe almost every republic in the world. Except Republic of Poland, where republic is translated from latin into polish and we use word "Rzeczpospolita" (rzecz - thing, pospolita - common). (We like this term especially because Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was also called "Rzeczpospolita" ;P.) So even if it means the same, we have another term for it, but I don't think that is good example of the word we could use for the reasons you were talking about.
How about countries just call themselves by the most widely known name?
Which Congo gets to be called just "Congo"?
seneca983 Isn't that obvious?
no
Great Wolf You mean the bigger Congo then?
I think calling a country only by its name without any prefixes or suffixes is good enough. This emphasizes the neutrality in calling a country rather than categorizing it base on its prefixes or suffixes.
Cuba is officially called the Republic of Cuba even though it has a communist government, they don't call themselves the "People's Republic of Cuba" or whatever after the revolution...This is why sometimes people who don't know Cuba is a communist country would categorize it with other countries like the Republic of Finland or the Republic of France.
Japan is a good example of calling itself just "Japan". Although the Japanese have an emperor and a democratically elected government and PM, they don't call themselves citizens of the "Empire of Japan", simply because...WW2. Since directly translating their country's name from Japanese (日本国 / Nippon-koku or Nihon-koku) would mean "The State of Japan" (which sounds a little bit anarchical-ish) or "The Country of Japan" (which sounds quite general), we should just call their country "Japan".
Minh Lê はい
From what I can tell, Japanese people don't even bother with 国 and just call it 日本 (you can put 国 at the end of any country, really). I would think it'd be a bit weirdly overly formal to call it 日本国. So yeah, 'Japan' would be an appropriate translation.
@@jankansi5679 That's a textbook formality.
is this safe to go and live in republic country?
2:48 other then the fact that neither would’ve been assumed ruler at birth, or that neither are from a royal family
Syria is in the republic category, while also being in the authoritarian category
Germany is in the republic category, and also in the democratic category
Why do we need a descriptor? They are often so misleading. “Conservative “ in Canada or Great Britain means something totally different from “Conservative “ in the United States.
Nannerchan no it doesn’t
How does it?
Nannerchan its not that it means something totaly diffrent its just that conservitives in america are usually more conservitives in canada or the uk but the diffrents isnt really that big
jake jones even then, not all libertarians fit into that category.
That is NOT, by any stretch, what conservatism means in America. You're describing the religious right and the alt-right, extreme-ish factions that like to vote GOP when it's in their interests, and stay home when it's not.
“Great Britain is a republic”
you wot m8?
By the broad definition of Republic = state run by a government, he is technically correct.
2:58
I just happen to be thinking about the infamous BBC newsless day broadcast of April 18 1930 earlier today. What a synchronity!!!
Why did you use a picture of the Dutch princess Beatrix at 1:47? We've had a king for over 5 years and had kingsday yesterday
If we're making up words, why not canolegate? From Ancient Greek Kanon and Latin Legatus, basically rule by representatives.
Sounds more like a government scandal than a system of governance
Señor MeinKrafter2020 I just realized that it almost sounds like canolagate. Like, some Senator has a scandal where he stole a bottle of canola oil or something.
Crethos Cretet incorrect. Democracy simply means people can influence the politics of the country i.e. elect local or governmental leaders, vote in elections and influence the governmental policies.
Republic simply means there is no king or hereditary absolute ruler.
Almost all counties have laws and constitutions. Democracy is not a mob rule, there's laws.
"When people are afraid of the government - it is tyranny. When government is afraid of people - it is a democracy"
We should totally take republic back to its old definition.
GamingTSC • I am not actually. I’m against TOTAL democracy, where everyone gets power. By republic, I meant REPRESENTATIVE democracy.
GamingTSC Do you not know how to read, or...?
@@DavidShlenskiy Outside of North America republic really only refers to a monarch-less country.
This is why 'democratic republics' were a thing. Democratic referring to some form of democracy (often only on paper however), and republic referring to their lack of a monarch (usually having a president instead).
Virtually no one considers 'republic' to be a synonym for 'democracy', nor does any one consider 'democracy' as a synonym for 'direct democracy'.
Only the Americans do.
oof, nice hoodie, looks hella comfy
cool video
4:22 I’m pretty sure that the Democratic Republic of the Congo isn’t communist (even though it has the word “democratic” in *its* name). It just *lacks* political stability (at the time of my comment). So, it’s another example of the ironic use of the word “democratic” in a country’s name. (Please correct me *if I’m wrong* about *any* of this though as I’m *obviously not from* the DRC if you could tell by my profile picture.)
Jaden Tapscott Bit the DRC is left wing so he's not that far off.
I think non-monarchies became considered republics because America rejected the idea of a monarch and replaced it with a republic instead.
Hi JJ, I am in Vancouver right now, is there anyway I can meet you?
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This guys head moves more than my 50 year old grandpa.
Maybe the term the "Liberal democratic republic of..." liberal to refer to individual liberty where the gov. operates within the rule of law.
That still wouldn't be accurate because Canada is still a constitutional monarchy, thereby making any term that includes "republic" would be false.
Canada is not a republic by definition. The vast majority of positions in Canada are not elected, therefore the positions are not "res publica".
I was taught that a republic was a system where the people elected the Head of State of their country, making America a republic and Canada a Constitutional Monarchy. PS, its the "Commonwealth of Canada".
Prakhar Tiwari No it ain’t.
Prakhar Tiwari While Australia follows that, with its official name being the Commonwealth of Australia, Canada’s officially name is simply Canada
I remember being taught in high school yjat Canada's official name is "the dominion of Canada". Is that not a thing?
Nope. Now it's only Canada.
Michal Z the Dominion of Canada means that Canada is govern themselves
It was previously known as that, but it changed after it was clear Canada was its own thing and not a colony anymore.
I've always used the representative definition.
I, myself, have always stuck to a hybrid between the "representative state" definition and the "non-monarchical" definition! Hence, I agree with your definition and the other one.
I prefer to call them elected oligarchies.
Finally! Pakistan has been mentioned!
faris taj YAY
faris taj 😂 Great achievement
Codiac Club Swap Pakistan and India, it makes more sense.
eww, I hope you're not a dirty islamist.
Kapteeni Finland
You need to elaborate more.
Your assumption just made you an ignorant fool.
I like the idea of republic just meaning a country and instead adding a prefix word like communist, socialist, democratic (maybe representative or direct, in the cases to distinguish say a country like Switzerland from any other democracy), authoritarian or monarchist to it.
Republic: mean no maonarcy
Kim jhon un: I am joke to you
xi jing ping as well lol
I’m really wondering why you constantly refer to Great Britain and not the United Kingdom and use an irrelevant version of the union flag constantly. It seems like you’re attempting to push a political opinion. I won’t be subscribing or watching your content.
4:21 Implying being associated with Communism is bad.
I think it’s a massively discredited, destructive, dangerous, deadly idea.
Communism has worked in zero places. It's a failed flawed idea. Even at its lowest level hippy communes it didn't work.
For clarity sake how are we defining communism, another word like republic which gets bandied about with multiple meanings, and impedes communication.... Several societies (mostly horticultural, but including 11th century Iceland) are often labeled as communist societies, and are treated as successful iterations of communism. However they are only communist in so far as they were heavily mutualistic, everyone had to work for the good of all or everyone would fail. According to some on the American right, communism is any system that has universal health care or more public education that 19th century Appalachia. To use the term d'art that I picked up from Thomas Sowel, is communism any system that has any amount of managed economy? No country (except possibly Somalia) has no government involvement in the economy, obviously the U.S. isn't communist, but are Germany and the U.K.? Is communism, merely any despotism or authoritarian state which has a heavily managed economy? That covers the Soviet Union, but also covers most of the American supported puppet regimes of the middle east. How about Marx's definition, which was a classless utopia, where no one could take advantage of anyone else, Marx defined the prior despotic form of communism as socialism and treated it as the necessary intermediary step between industrial capitalism and his utopia.
Canadians are as smug as they get
Hi. Im from Abu Dhabi. Im an Arab emirati. I am a wealthy bourgeois. Come at me bro 😂
J.J., is there a reason you used this flag of the USA at 1:27? I’d love to hear if so.
Is the Union Flag being intentionally simplified more in every video where it pops up?
The second definition is probably the best way to describe a republic or a constitutional republic, which is the head of state and other officials are the representatives of the people and must govern within an existing constitution.
#videoidea what are political ideologies and why we need them?
I like democratic republic and its variations, pretty catchy
i learned the 2nd definition
When I think of republics, I usually think of the representative republic definition (basically the US and other similar nations).
That's kind of what I think of too! More specifically, I think of a republic as a state that is representative _and_ non-monarchical, hence the difference between the US, the UK, and China.
Don't forget that the idea of Res Publica is what justified the rise of absolute monarchies.
A republic is a state with popular sovereignty (public ownership of the state). A monarchy, meanwhile, is a state legally owned by one individual (the Sovereign). While public ownership of government *implies* democracy, you can have undemocratic republics and democratic monarchies.
0:41 "mono means one and rail means rail"
This video is informative (that's all I could say)
J.J. please do a video on why there are NOT titled nobles in Canada
Well, you use the old "Yang di-Pertuan Agong" of Malaysia
In America, the terms being thrown around to describe our current government include Plutocracy and Oligarchy. There are a few other labels I can't remember right now, but the definitions of all of them do line up pretty well with our "Republic."
Best 5 minutes i spent!
Great brit, Ian!
Republic means "the public thing" or the law. A country is a republic if it's ruled by law. So that minority rights is protected from the majority (and also, a republic typically has a president but constitutional monarchies does it the same way).
1:29 AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH GET IT OFF MY SCREEN
I live in Canada as well actually in Vancouver. My understanding is that we are federal democratic constitutional limited monarchy.
JJ do a video about the Benjamin Netanyahu Iran speech
I thought Canada’s full name was the Royal common wealth of Canada
3:04 wtf is that flag?
The Galactic Republic turn in The Galactic Empire after the Clone Wars.
Where's the 2nd definition
2:22 The most appropriate picture of former PM Sipilä ever since he's holding one of his biggest lies.
I am not from Finland, so could you explain the lie?
@@Hand-in-Shot_Productions During the 2015 Parliament elections, there was a campaign called "Koulutuslupaus" (Education promise) organized by Students unions. The campaign asked parliamentary parties to comment on seven education and training statements on the yes-no axis. The parties responded positively to the questions, and for example, the statement “education budgets should remain at least at the current level in the next term of office” was agreed by seven parties, including those who formed the government after the elections. All parties also agreed that student financial aid should remain focused on direct payments. Party heads also posed with students holding signs with those promises (the picture). When elected, PM Sipilä cut education by 700 M€ . Student aid payments were cut by 70 M€ while increasing the amount of debt students can take. This left many students pissed, (me included). This was one of the austerity measures Sipiläs government made during his 4 years in office.
Those pictures were reposted constantly on social media during his time in office, symbolizing Sipiläs austerity policies.
I was a bit hyperbolic with my original comment. In the end, the benefits were weaker, but it was not the end of the world to me. I just had to take more debt to get trough Uni.
1:29 wtf kind of british flag is that?
my representative was in the layer of politicians 🥰
A mix of the 2nd and 3rd ones; A system with democratic representatives AND doesn't have a monarch
I always thought Canada was a Dominion and celebrated Dominion Day when I was in upstate New York years ago. I have also heard that we in the USA have a Federal Republic which some people describe as a Representative (not Direct) Democracy.
It would be nice if Republic had an agreed upon meaning although one word can have more than one meaning.
Historically oligarchies could also be replublics like the Republic of Venice. This was pointed out by the founding fathers back when they debated the meaning of the word, so this is an old yet interesting topic.
Aristotle divided forms of government into three types the rule of one, the rule of few, and the rule of many. These where divided into corrupted and uncorrupted forms. The uncorrupted form of the rule of many was refer to with the general word for city state and also with the word constitution, so it has no name itself. This form of government was described as citizens voting for representatives and so ruling and being ruled in turn. I think Republic would be a good word for the uncorrupted rule of many.
Nice
I have never heard of this third definition of republic before. I usually think of the second definition when i hear the word republic and think any county that has republic in there name and don't adhere to this definition are lying about the status of their country.
What makes a modern inherited dictatorship different from a monarchy?
When you talk about UK you use the pre act of union of 1800 flag.