republican government

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republican government - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT. A government in the republican form; a government of 
  the people; it is usually put in opposition to a monarchical or aristocratic 
  government. 
       2. The fourth section of the fourth article of the constitution, 
  directs that "the United States shall guaranty to every state in the Union a 
  republican form of government." The form of government is to be guaranteed, 
  which supposes a form already established, and this is the republican form 
  of government the United States have undertaken to protect. See Story, 
  Const. Sec. 1807.