A republic is the dominant form of government in the contemporary world. It is a form of representative democracy based on the model of Rome, in which the governing body is bound by a set of established rules or procedures (usually set out in a constitution and declaration of all citizens’ rights). In his historical analysis of nationalism, Anderson asks why nationalist movements all created republics, which replaced the absolute monarchies that tended to rule beforehand.
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Chapter 4: Creole Processes
...Americas. In part as a result, every Latin American country but Brazil immediately formed a republic upon independence, taking the United States and France as models. But the aforementioned reasons do...
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Chapter 11: Memory and Forgetting
...Independence, which was both “absolutely unprecedented" and “absolutely reasonable.” The Declaration offered a vision of republican government for revolutionaries around the globe to follow. Crucially, it did not appeal to history,...
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