The Republic Hunter Priniski
Victoria Leon
11-9-09

A Republic is which the head of the country is not a monarch and most of the people in the country have a say in the government. Some countries that are a Republic are: Afghanistan (also known as the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Albania (Republic of Albania), and Australia (Commonwealth of Australia). The theory of an Republic stae was first introduced by Plato. It was first introduced in Republic of Greece it introduced they ideas of commonwealth and public businesses. All though the modern idea of the Republic was an idea of a republic first appeared in the work by Italian scholars of the Renaissance, most importantly Niccolò Machiavelli. He divided governments into two types, monarch and republic, he first said that the republic is ruled by the people. Strengths of a Republic is that a person that holds a blue collar jobs has as much say as a CEO of a major corporation. I mean this by the act of voting, peoples votes all over the country all equal; the President, the gas pump custodian, and senator. When a person votes they have say in their government, ll though it may not be much, it is enough for the republic to work. There are to drawbacks to a Republic, one it takes a while for a law to pass. It takes a while because it has to go through all of the branches of government. This is a drawback because if it is a law that needs to be passed quickly it may take a while, and then if the law is passed it may be to late for it to be of any use. It takes the cooperation of the population in the country for the Republic to work. Because if people don't vote then the laws won't pass, the country would probably just stay at a stand still. The Republic is pretty much a good type of government, but when you mix it with another type of government you get the greatest goverment of all time, The United States of America.