Sentence examples for representative republic from inspiring English sources

I have worked in Michigan's prisons for more than 22 years and can say without hesitation that I would not want any convicted felon voting in any election that could determine the state's future, nor that of my family.The United States is a representative republic, and a vote in any public election represents the will of law-abiding citizens.

In our representative republic, constituents are charged with identifying and supporting policy makers who represent their point of view.

C.L.: Representative republic?

"This is a representative republic with heightened democratic principles".

Even a little of such behavior can do grave damage to the idea of a representative republic.

It was reorganized as a centralized representative republic with its capital at Bogotá; Bolívar became president and Francisco de Paula Santander vice president.

Together with international commerce, he recommended representative republics (what we would call democracies), mutual transparency, norms against conquest and internal interference, freedom of travel and immigration and a federation of states that would adjudicate disputes between them.

The states, then, may wholly withdraw from the Union, but while they continue, they must retain the character of representative republics.

I think it's time to fight for a big idea that Americans actually believe and that was the core idea of our Republic: that representative democracy represent its citizens equally.

Because citizens do not govern the state themselves but through representatives, republics may be distinguished from direct democracy, though modern representative democracies are by and large republics.

Those who remember their civics classes will note that we have not a direct but a representative democracy (or a republic).