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What is a republic?

What is a republic? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A state where sovereignty rests with the people or their representatives, rather than with a monarch or emperor; a country with no monarchy.
  2. (archaic) A state, which may or may not be a monarchy, in which the executive and legislative branches of government are separate.
  3. One of the subdivisions constituting Russia. See oblast.
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The Venetian republic forbade its citizen nobles from assuming titles such as prince, duke, marquis, or count.
Intervening in this particular republic is much less ambiguously a win-win situation.
The term is often used to refer to all Roman territories during both the republic and the empire.
Fifty years of civil war, a republic led by Oliver Cromwell, and the restoration of the monarchy.
Federalists seized on the concept of an extensive republic in essays, public letters, and private correspondence.
But as the birth of the American republic so brilliantly demonstrates, the taxing power of the government is far from being unlimited.

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