REPUBLIC

• (noun) a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

  synonyms : commonwealth , democracy

  The Indian government is a commonwealth. -added by naila_inlas

• (noun) a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch

  "the head of state in a republic is usually a president"

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