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	Republicanism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Republicanism can also refer to the ideologies of any of the many political parties that are named the Republican Party.
		In England a republicanism evolved that was not wholly opposed to monarchy, but rather thinkers such as Thomas More and John Milton saw an monarchy firmly constrained by law as compatible with republicanism.
		These Polish republicans such as Lukasz Gornicki, Andrzej Wolan, and Stanislaw Konarski were well read in classical and Renaissance texts and firmly believed that their state was a Republic on the Roman model and called their state the Rzeczpospolita.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Republicanism (3086 words)

	Encyclopedia: Republicanism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		IOn such states republicanism is usually motivated more by as a result of decreasing popularity of the Royal Family, who may be increasingly embroiled in scandal or conflict.
		The British republican movement is a movement in the United Kingdom which seeks to remove the British monarchy and replace it with a republic with an elected head of state.
		Republicanism in New Zealand is the movement to change New Zealands status as a Commonwealth realm as a constitutional monarchy to that of a republic.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Republicanism (7264 words)

	British republicanism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		British republicanism is a movement to remove the monarchy, the remaining hereditary peers in the House of Lords and all forms of hereditary privilege.
		Most, though not all, British republicans support a fully elected second chamber, an elected head of state and a written constitution.
		England was a republic, ruled successively by Oliver Cromwell and his son, Richard, for a few short years in the seventeenth century, after the English Revolution.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/british_republicanism (192 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Rather republicanism is generally a local political movement that argues for the abolition of the monarchy in a particular nation.
		Historically, the term "republican" in Ireland to those Irish nationalists who sought the overthrow, rather than gradual end, of British rule, who proclaimed the Irish Republic (not to be confused with the Republic of Ireland) in 1919.
		Some republicans are less concerned about the philosophy of republicanism, believing that their country is in practice, republican and independent already, whereas others argue for reforms that provide independence in conjunction with greater application of republican principles, such as popular sovereignty.
	www.hostingciamca.com /index.php?title=Republicanism (994 words)

	SDLP and NEW REPUBLICANISM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The two essential tenets of Irish Republicanism to unite Catholic, Protestant and Dissenter in the common name of Irishman and to break the connection with England, have persisted as potent motivators of political engagement in Ireland ever since they were first expressed by the father of Irish Republicanism, Wolfe Tone.
		Killing in a most calculated way those with whom republicans claim it is their very aim to unite, and on the scale that it happened was such a contradiction that it is impossible to argue that it was republican ideals and not deep rooted sectarian antipathies that drove much of that campaign.
		For republicans, the challenge is to fulfil all its requirements, generously work its institutions and use its opportunities to lay the basis for a real and enduring unity.
	www.sdlp.ie /prfarrensdlpandnewrepublicanism.shtm (2067 words)

	Irish Republicanism - Biocrawler definition:Irish Republicanism - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Nationalist rebellions against British rule in 1848 (by the Young Irelanders) and 1865 and 1867 (by the Fenian Brotherhood) were followed by harsh reprisals by British forces and Irish Protestant loyalists.
		It speaks for the Continuity IRA, whose goals are the overthrow of British rule in the six counties and the reunification of the country.
		Irish Republican Socialist Party- Originally the party of Irish-socialist rebel James Connolly during the early 20th century, the IRSP was reborn by Seamus Costello in 1974.
	www.biocrawler.com /biowiki/Irish_republicanism (3162 words)

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		The impression of Republicans that the British were determined to destroy the Irish culture and deny them self-determination was confirmed by the constant, hostile presence of British armored vehicles and patrolling soldiers.
		The spectacular funerals of slain IRA volunteers, the treatment of the 1981 hungerstrikers as martyrs, and the murals glorifying the Republican dead all testify to the capacity of Republicans to derive cultural value from politically motivated deaths.
		Following the British government's demand for a political assembly and the rejection of the Mitchell Commission’s proposal, on February 9, 1996 PIRA issued a statement declaring that a resumption of the "armed struggle" was taking place, citing its frustration with the lack of movement on political talks.
	www.gmu.edu /academic/pcs/SAPONE71PCS.html (13026 words)

	REPUBLICANISM FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Republic comes from the Latin word ''res_publica'' and one meaning of this term is the form of government that began with the overthrow of the last tyrant known as the Roman_Republic.
		These authors, most prominent among them being NiccolÃ²_Machiavelli, based republicanism on the states of the classical world, such as Athens, Sparta, and the Roman_Republic as well as the ancient works of political philosophy such as Aristotle, Polybius and especially Cicero.
		While a late convert to republicanism from communitarianism, Michael_Sandel is perhaps the most prominent advocate in the United States for replacing or supplementing liberalism with republicanism as outlined in his ''Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy.'' As of yet these theorists have had little impact on government.
	www.bellabuds.com /Republicanism (3019 words)

	Australian Parliamentary Library - 1995-96 Research Paper 31
		The republican debate in Australia has been most intense in the 1990s and, as the 2000 Olympics and the centenary of federation approach, there is every reason and many a pretext for examining Australia's constitutional history and national symbols.
		To grasp the English republican model we have to be prepared to accept that the non-monarchical concept of a republic is only one of the understandings of republicanism which have played a formative role in the development of our political institutions.
		Whereas the conservative tradition of republicanism was able to accommodate a dual allegiance to both Crown and adopted Country, the Labor tradition has always sought to frame the issue of loyalty as a choice between Australian independence and fealty to the mother country.
	www.aph.gov.au /library/pubs/rp/1995-96/96rp31.htm (7335 words)

	THE BLANKET * Index: Current Articles
		His early republican involvement predated the forming of the Provisionals in 1969, but as he says himself in that era Belfast republicanism was an incestuous affair, with the movement based around a number of older republican families which had passed the flame down over the years.
		Their task was to take republicanism out of its isolation which they put down to its incorrigible attachment to the tradition of physical force which even when not activated always sat as an army in waiting, watching patiently for the right opportunity to strike at the old enemy – Britain.
		Republicans were to forge links with the workers and radical trade unionists, to create an irrepressible mass movement which would ensure mass support for the continuing armed struggle in the six counties and make for a competent force in the event of a serious conflict.
	lark.phoblacht.net /am11115g.html (8455 words)

	THE BLANKET * Winter 2002
		The fact that Irish Republicanism has not been able to realise its aims and has suffered a massive defeat is at the root of this present crisis.
		A current able to regenerate Irish Republicanism is not yet hegemonic and is not presently capable of transforming itself into a significant political force.
		The 26-County state is the legitimate Irish Republic in the eyes of the vast majority of its citizens, and in the North an agreement far short of a United Ireland free of British control has the support of the greater number of the Nationalist population.
	lark.phoblacht.net /newphase.html (821 words)

	SAOIRSE Fenian Notes October 1999
		The goal of Republicans is the withdrawal of all remnants of British power from Irish soil and the establishment of our own unified state.
		The British and their allies are continuing an elitist progression of colonial behaviour through the Partition process.
		The Provos cannot nullify true Republicanism by fitting bits of it into their scheme for participation in British affairs, politics and government inclusive of the police force.
	homepage.eircom.net /~eirenua/oct99/fenian.htm (1673 words)

	Return of Criminalisation?
		In 1972 the British government recognized the political status of Irish republican prisoners under what was then called "Special Category Status." Republicans were segregated by political affiliation and held separate from the general prison population.
		British politicians believed that "Special Category Status" contributed to 'terrorism' and Lord Gardiner among others hoped that a revocation of prisoners' political status would discredit and demoralize the struggle for Irish freedom.
		In 1999 the British apparently believe that republicanism is weakened enough to withstand a return to criminalisation.
	larkspirit.com /psn/return.html (955 words)

	Encyclopedia: British republicanism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		One reason for a return to monarchism after Cromwell's protectorate was that a system for deciding the succession to the next leader had not been put in place.
		The monarchy is still largely popular, but a sizeable minority of the British public are opposed to it, opinion polls in recent years putting support for an elected head of state consistently around 15-30%.
		Support for republicanism was similarly high during the later years of Queen Victoria's reign, when she withdrew from public life following the death of her husband, Prince Albert, only to drop away after her Diamond Jubilee.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/British-republicanism (462 words)

	Weekly Worker 336 Thursday May 18 2000
		It is a testimony to the economism and demoralisation of the British left that a campaign like Republic can, with some justification, claim to be the vanguard of the struggle to rid society of all forms of hereditary privilege.
		This is why we have set up the Republican Communist Network, an alliance of groups and individuals who see a connection between the fight for republicanism and the aim of a communist society.
		The RCN means rejecting the gradualism of Republic and the spontaneous and tailist republicanism of the SWP, Socialist Party and Scottish Socialist Party.
	www.cpgb.org.uk /worker/336/lizlast.html (2317 words)

	Anti-monarchism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Thereafter, a popular working class platform combined the “natural rights” republicanism of Thomas Paine with “popular constitutionalism”, a crafty linguistic trick whereby radicals sought to place their demands for democratisation of the British political structure within a legal claim to their “right” to representation within the ancient constitution.
		Within this challenge to the British state by the working class in the early 19th century was a crude threat to privilege and expenditure on the throne and the vast sums spent on aristocratic pensions, palace building and the civil list.
		It is true though that a republican movement did not grow up in Britain as it did in other European states in the nineteenth century but then, as seems fairly obvious, it didn't need to after the defeat of royal authority in the 17th century.
	www.worldsocialism.org /spgb/jun02/jubilee.html (1212 words)

	The American dream.
		After 200 years of denial the British were being asked to take seriously the proposition that in the contest of ideas their country had been left behind.
		Even the land on which we build or farm is ultimately owned by the "Crown." This British experience has resulted in an ingrained view of political power rightly flowing from the top.
		Even British pride in the "mother of parliaments" is misplaced, according to the author.
	www.centreforcitizenship.org /special.html (1871 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Down with the Crown: British Anti-monarchism and Debates About Royalty Since 1790 (Picturing ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		While a number of important books have attempted to reappraise the British royal family, the study of anti-monarchism has by contrast been largely ignored.
		This book is a major achievement in research on British republicanism.
		Moreover, he plausibly substitutes the term "anti-monarchism" for "republicanism", thus achieving a much more coherent interpretation of this little-known aspect of British history.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1861890494 (572 words)

	Schedule for English 172: the American Revolution
		Write a 3 page paper defining the disposition, the posture and the style of protest that is advocated and modeled for the citizens of the British colonies in John Dickinson's "Letters from an American Farmer to the Inhabitants of British Colonies"
		Proceedings and Debates of the British Parliaments Respecting North America, 1754-1783, V, 365-368.
		Edmund Burke's rendering of the colonists of British America (In his speech advocating conciliation with the American colonies.
	dc-mrg.english.ucsb.edu /WarnerTeach/E172 (1149 words)

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