> > Absolutely. Come Sunday, I will have been living in The Netherlands > > for the last 36 years. I can assure you that our politicians have > > been elected (two elections so far this year), and I can assure you > > that if my country would be a republic, I would know about it. > > Republic (n) > .... > 2) a) A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of > citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives > responsible to them. > b) A nation that has such a political order. > > JDG - Not the Netherlands? Maru?
The first definition I found in Webster's indicates that a republic does not have a monarch. The second definition is the one you gave.
I already figured that the first definition had to be something that contradicted JDG's argument. Thanks for the quick response, Dan -- you saved me the trouble of looking up that first definition myself.
So, a republic does not have a monarch. The Netherlands does have a monarch, therefore The Netherlands is not a republic.
Q.E.D.
Jeroen "Political Observations" van Baardwijk
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