[Dragaera] How are Teckla Republics formed?

[Michael Wojcik]

Jerry Friedman wrote:
> --- Jon Lincicum <lincicum at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>> Does a Teckla "republic" eventually devolve into a republic in name
>> only?
> 
> What does a state need to be a republic, beside not being
> ruled by a hereditary monarch?

Usage varies, but I believe as a term of art in political science, it 
means government by a group of elected representatives: so ultimate 
power rests (in theory) with the electorate, but executive authority 
with their representatives. (This against direct democracy, where 
executive and/or legislative decisions are made directly by the 
electorate.) Our "republic" comes from Latin "respublica", which 
literally means something like "the people's thing".

That leaves room for all sorts of forms of government. There might 
have been a Teckla republic similar to the US federal government, with 
separately elected executive and legislative branches; there might 
have been one more along the modern European system, with an elected 
legislature itself choosing the executive; one with executive 
decisions made by a council; and so on.

-- 
Michael Wojcik