Do we say democracy or republic

democracy 2405 occurrences

| | | | Politically it will be Democraticred-hot and reliable | | earnest and continuous in its war against the bonded | | interest of the country, and determined in its labors for | | that earnest Democracy, which believes in the restoration | | and not the reconstruction of the Government.

And the waxen beauties who display the frocks greet us in true democracy with as sweet a simper.

Demos people democracy, epidemic *Derma skin epidermis, taxidermist *Dis, di twice, doubly dichromatic, digraph *Didonai, dosis give dose, apodosis, anecdote *Dynamis power dynamite, dynasty *Eidos form, thing seen idol, kaleidoscope, anthropoid *Ethnos race, nation ethnic, ethnology

On America's standard is written democracy, on that of Germany autocracy.

The women of the Allies can fight for all that their men fight forfor national self-respect, for protection of citizens, for the sacredness of international agreements, for the rights of small nations, for the security of democracy, and then our women can be inspired by one thing morethe safety and development of all those things which they have won for human welfare in a long and bloodless battle.

France has more to gain than any other country in Europe by reverting to those sound principles of democracy which formed her erstwhile glory.

I place my greatest trust in the action of American democracy.

"As the irrefutable and all-enduring truths of Democracy receive exemplification in contemporaneous events, the reflecting and refined masses of this city purchase the World in preference to that decrepit and fast decaying sheet, the Herald.

AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE DREAD ABODE OF THE JOHN REAL DEMOCRACY.]

A Picture of the John Real Democracy: "What are these, So withered and so wild in their attire; That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth, And yet are on't?" Macbeth, Act 1, Sc. 3.

Everything is looking now in the direction of democracy.

She had not yet determined whether his equable poise arose from an unequivocal democracy of spirit, or from sheer egotism.

"I think Woodrow Wilson won the World War with his fourteen points of democracy.

" The prison is the real maker of democracy.

In fine, these pioneers constituted a pure democracy, where law was the simple rule of honesty, friendship, mutual help, and good will, where "duty was love and love was law.

And the paradox of Prussia is this: that while its princes and nobles have no other aim on this earth but to destroy democracy wherever it shows itself, they have contrived to get themselves trusted, not as wardens of the past but as forerunners of the future.

Ruth Langland Holberg (A & W); 25Oct62; R303512. HOLCOMBE, ARTHUR N. Government in a planned democracy.

GREENAN, JOHN T. Everyday problems of American democracy.

Cooperative democracy through voluntary association of people as consumers.

The rise of American democracy.

Future of democracy.

Future of democracy.

Divided we stand: the crisis of a frontierless democracy.

Divided we stand: the crisis of a frontierless democracy.

The economic program for American democracy.

republic 5893 occurrences

people, persons, folk, public, society, world; community, community at large; general public; nation, nationality; state, realm; commonweal, commonwealth; republic, body politic; million &c (commonalty) 876; population &c (inhabitant) 188. tribe, clan (paternity) 166; family (consanguinity) 11. cosmopolite; lords of the creation; ourselves.

Nothing perhaps evinces so clearly as this, how wretched was the constitution and how incapable was the administration of this so-called golden age of the republic.

"Take courage," they cried, "it behoves thee, Lorenzo, to live and die for the Republic!"

The lads were not alone in their exposure to the wrath of Madonna Clarice, for, sitting in his chair of estate, was Silvio Passerini, Cardinal of Cortona, their Governor, and Pope Clement VII.'s Regent of the Republic.

She was not only the Head of the Tuscan League and the chief Republic in Europe, but also the first of modern states.

Giulio was preconised Cardinal, Giuliano appointed Gonfaloniere of the Papal army, and Lorenzo became the virtual Head of the Florentine Republic.

He had undoubtedly personal fitness for the post of Chief of the Republic.

At the same time the Republic was superseded and the citizens allowed to exercise the franchise only in the election of civil magistrates.

Although we have sincerely wished that an adjustment of our differences with the Republic of France might be effected on safe and honorable terms, yet the information you have given us of the ultimate failure of the negotiation has not surprised us.

In the general conduct of that Republic we have seen a design of universal influence incompatible with the self-government and destructive of the independence of other States.

I have seen no real evidence of any change of system or disposition in the French Republic toward the United States.

It would be the theme of mutual felicitation were we assured of experiencing similar moderation and justice from the French Republic, between which and the United States differences have unhappily arisen; but this is denied us by the ultimate failure of the measures which have been taken by this Government toward an amicable adjustment of those differences and by the various inadmissible pretensions on the part of that nation.

Gentlemen of the Senate and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives: An edict of the Executive Directory of the French Republic of the 29th of October, 1798, inclosed in a letter from our minister plenipotentiary in London of the 16th of November, is of so much importance that it can not be too soon communicated to you and the public.

Gentlemen of the House of Representatives: In pursuance of the request in your resolve of yesterday, I lay before you such information as I have received touching a suspension of the arrêt of the French Republic, communicated to your House by my message of the 28th of January last.

Always disposed and ready to embrace every plausible appearance of probability of preserving or restoring tranquillity, I nominate William Vans Murray, our minister resident at The Hague, to be minister plenipotentiary of the United States to the French Republic.

[Translation.] PARIS, the 7th Vendémiaire of the 7th Year of the French Republic, One and Indivisible.

The Minister of Exterior Relations to Citizen Pichon, Secretary of Legation of the French Republic near the Batavian Republic: I have received successively, Citizen, your letters of the 22d and 27th

The Minister of Exterior Relations to Citizen Pichon, Secretary of Legation of the French Republic near the Batavian Republic: I have received successively, Citizen, your letters of the 22d and 27th

It is upon this supposition and with this expectation that I now nominate Oliver Ellsworth, esq., Chief Justice of the United States; Patrick Henry, esq., late governor of Virginia, and William Vans Murray, esq., our minister resident at The Hague, to be envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to the French Republic, with full powers to discuss and settle by a treaty all controversies between the United States and France.

Gentlemen of the Senate and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives: I transmit to Congress certain documents which have relation to the communications made on Tuesday, on the subjects of the insurrection in Pennsylvania, the renewal of commerce with St. Domingo, and the mission to the French Republic.

I am happy to be now able to inform you that an advance has been made toward the adjustment of our differences with that Republic and the restoration of the customary good feeling between the two nations.

There is at present also reason to believe that an equitable settlement of all disputed points will be attained without further difficulty or unnecessary delay, and thus authorize the free resumption of diplomatic intercourse with our sister Republic.

I regret to state that the blockade of the principal ports on the eastern coast of Mexico, which, in consequence of differences between that Republic and France, was instituted in May last, unfortunately still continues, enforced by a competent French naval armament, and is necessarily embarrassing to our own trade in the Gulf, in common with that of other nations.

A convention for marking that part of the boundary between the United States and the Republic of Texas which extends from the mouth of the Sabine to the Red River was concluded and signed at this city on the 25th of April last.

The application of that Republic for admission into this Union, made in August, 1837, and which was declined for reasons already made known to you, has been formally withdrawn, as will appear from the accompanying copy of the note of the minister plenipotentiary of Texas, which was presented to the Secretary of State on the occasion of the exchange of the ratifications of the convention above mentioned.

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