{"id":8406,"date":"2013-10-29T22:31:13","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T22:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/?page_id=8406"},"modified":"2025-12-12T09:07:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T15:07:36","slug":"republican-government","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/republican-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>What is a Republican Form of Government?<\/h1>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper fourthree\" title=\"Republican Government\" style=\"width:420px;max-width:100%;margin:5px auto;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_2iwhmkcDsHM\"><div id=\"lyte_2iwhmkcDsHM\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F2iwhmkcDsHM%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\">Republican Government<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/2iwhmkcDsHM\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F2iwhmkcDsHM%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Republican Government\" width=\"420\" height=\"295\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:420px;margin:5px auto;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"accordion\"><input id=\"transcript\" type=\"checkbox\" class=\"spoiler_button\" \/><label for=\"transcript\">Transcript<\/label>\n<div class=\"spoiler\" id=\"transcript-spoiler\">\n<p>Republican governments exist when governmental leaders are changed out through an election or appointment process, as opposed to serving for life as a monarch. There are several main types of republican governments that I want to take a look at.<\/p>\n<p><b>The first being a constitutional republic.<\/b> This is where the head of state only has certain powers granted to it by a constitution and most of the nation&#8217;s citizens have the right to vote. <b>In a democratic republic<\/b>, everyone, all the citizens of that country, are said to have an equal say in that government and most of the citizens, again, have the right to vote.<\/p>\n<p><b>In a parliamentary republic<\/b>, there is both an elected head of state and an elected head of government. The elected head of state mostly serves as a figurehead, whereas the elected head of government holds most of the country&#8217;s executive powers.<\/p>\n<p><b>A federal republic<\/b> is when states are joined together by a republican form of government, as is the case in the U.S. <b>An Islamic republic<\/b> is when the republic is governed according to Islamic law, such as in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, a <b>socialist republic<\/b> is when the country says to be a country for the people, but there actually is no election process, such as in China. Those are a few main forms of republican governments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is a Republican Form of Government?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-8406","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"page_type-video","6":"page_domain-social-studies"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48811,"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8406\/revisions\/48811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}