Editing Republic (section)

===Archaic meaning===
Before the 17th Century, the term 'republic' could be used to refer to states of any form of government as long as it was not a tyrannical regime. French philosopher [[Jean Bodin]]'s definition of the republic was "the rightly ordered government of a number of families, and of those things which are their common concern, by a sovereign power." Oligarchies and monarchies could also be included as they were also organised toward 'public' shared interests.<ref name="Munro">{{cite web |first1=André |last1=Munro |title=republic |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/republic-government |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=15 Dec 2021}}</ref> In medieval texts, 'republic' was used to refer to the body of shared interest with the king at its head.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Frank Anthony Carl |last1=Mantello |first2=A. G. |last2=Rigg |title=Medieval Latin: An Introduction and Bibliographical Guide |date=1996 |publisher=CUA Press |isbn=9780813208428 |page=209 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bb32Th4WAK0C&pg=PA209 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Glenn |first1=Jason |title=Politics and History in the Tenth Century: The Work and World of Richer of Reims |date=2004 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780521834872 |page=246 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tkPcvsHbsiIC&pg=PA246 }}</ref> For instance, the [[Holy Roman Empire]] was also known as the ''Sancta Respublica Romana'', the Holy Roman Republic.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Christopher Dawson |title=The Making of Europe: An Introduction to the History of European Unity |date=2002 |publisher=CUA Press |isbn=9780813210834 |page=101}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Giuliano Amato, Enzo Moavero-Milanesi, Gianfranco Pasquino, Lucrezia Reichlin |title=The History of the European Union: Constructing Utopia |date=2019 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=9781509917426 |page=17}}</ref> The [[Byzantine Empire]] also continued calling itself ''the Roman Republic'' as the Byzantines did not regard monarchy as a contradiction to republicanism. Instead, republics were defined as any state based on popular sovereignty and whose institutions were based on shared values.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Anthony Kaldellis |title=Ethnography After Antiquity: Foreign Lands and Peoples in Byzantine Literature |date=2013 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |isbn=9780812208405 |page=14}}</ref>