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==Opinion==

==Opinion==

If the 'public' is any configuration of people, the '''re-public''' is that which 're-presents' them.

If 'public' indicates the presence of a plurality of [[individual]]s, the '''re-public''' is that which 're-presents' them.

==Online Etymology Dictionary==  

==Online Etymology Dictionary==  

1604, "state in which supreme power rests in the people," from Fr. république, from L. respublica (abl. republica), lit. res publica "public interest, the state," from res "affair, matter, thing" + publica, fem. of publicus "public" (see public). Republican (adj.) "belonging to a republic" is recorded from 1712; in noun sense of "one who favors a republic" it is recorded from 1697; and in sense of a member of a specific U.S. political party (the Anti-Federalists) from 1782, though this was not the ancestor of the modern Republican Party, which dates from 1854. Republicrat in U.S. political jargon usually meaning "moderate," is attested from 1940.

1604, "state in which supreme power rests in the people," from Fr. république, from L. respublica (abl. republica), lit. res publica "public interest, the state," from res "affair, matter, thing" + publica, fem. of publicus "public" (see public). Republican (adj.) "belonging to a republic" is recorded from 1712; in noun sense of "one who favors a republic" it is recorded from 1697; and in sense of a member of a specific U.S. political party (the Anti-Federalists) from 1782, though this was not the ancestor of the modern Republican Party, which dates from 1854. Republicrat in U.S. political jargon usually meaning "moderate," is attested from 1940.

fr: republic. Dictionary.com. Online Etymology Dictionary. Douglas Harper, Historian. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/republic accessed: August 24, 2007.

fr: republic. Dictionary.com. Online Etymology Dictionary. Douglas Harper, Historian. [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/republic] accessed: August 24, 2007.

==American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition ==

==American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition ==

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fr: republic. Dictionary.com. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/republic (accessed: August 24, 2007).

fr: republic. Dictionary.com. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/republic (accessed: August 24, 2007).