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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jttmab who wrote (5229)	7/19/2001 1:33:45 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

A miscommunication, I think. Main Entry: re·pub·lic Pronunciation: ri-'p&-blik Function: noun Etymology: French république, from Middle French republique, from Latin respublica, from res thing, wealth + publica, feminine of publicus public -- more at REAL, PUBLIC Date: 1604 1 a (1) : a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern times is usually a president (2) : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government b (1) : a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law (2) : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government c : a usually specified republican government of a political unit <the French Fourth Republic> 2 : a body of persons freely engaged in a specified activity <the republic of letters> 3 : a constituent political and territorial unit of the former nations of Czechoslovakia, the U.S.S.R., or Yugoslavia m-w.com I was using the first definition above("chief of state who is not a monarch"). I believe the British chief of state is the King. Am I correct in this? Or is it (uh,oh) the Prime Minister? This is not a discussion of whether Britain has a democratic government - it has one of the oldest.