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ORIGINAL: DomKen

You're playing games with the bare definition of a republic. A republic is and always has been a government where some large group chooses some of its members to dothe actual governing. I'm not going to argue constitutional republic or enlightenment republicanism or any other modified republic.

I will further note that all of your quotes are lifted from sections which are simply the opinions of the author as indicated by the various [citation needed] tags.

You conveniently ignore the first sentence of the article which does succinctly describe a republic

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A republic is a state or country that is not led by a hereditary monarch[1][2] but in which the people (or at least a part of its people)[3] have an impact on its government.[4][5]