Adoption of the constitution of 1978 created a one-party republic based on the All People's Congress; the head of state, or executive president, was elected by delegates of the All People's Congress, and there was a parliament.
We're still a young country, and one of the things that has made us a completely new thing in history is both the idea and the ideal that we can develop a country, a huge continental country, that is multi-ethnic, multi-religious, multi-racial, and hold it together in unity behind a constitutional republic based on the principles of human democracy.
For the location Wilson created the Republic of Isthmus, a banana republic based on Panama, with the pock-marked Sanchez bearing similarities to General Manuel Noriega.
It was put in the Constitution to allow states to choose Presidents, for we are a republic based on the separation of powers, not a direct democracy.
What's our economy based on? in The New Republic, September 10 , 2008issue.
It is also a crime for a political party to suggest "that minorities exist in the Turkish Republic based on national, religious, confessional, racial or language differences".
Whenever in history sovereign citizens have embarked together on a political project, they have founded a republic based on that principle of political equality.
That same year, Holland's leading composer Louis Andriessen completed his most famous work, De Staat (The Republic) based on Plato's ruminations about the connection between music and politics.
Still, the surprise winner has a reputation for avoiding the factions that plague Iran's hybrid system – an Islamic republic based on theocratic authority but with a vigorous parliament and regular elections.
It became clearer that what is now being called the Catholic Seven is forming a breakaway republic based on basketball and leaving the football lunacy behind, Dana O'Neil writes on ESPN.com.
