What is a republican form of Government? What does it try to achieve?
A republic may have different forms, but the gist is that in a republic the people do not actually participate beyond voting and serving on juries. Instead, usually because of the large size of the population, the citizens vote for a representative who will speak for them and their geographic area in the legislature. Additionally in presidential type systems, the people will also get to elect the executive, but this is not so in parliamentary republics where the executive is elected from the legislature. This form of government (a republic) has historically been viewed as one of the best and most progressive. In fact such arguments date well into Ancient Greece in part due to Plato and his work “The Republic.” I do caution you against citing it as it deals with many other more complex and controversial themes. This form has also been criticised heavily by proponents of other schools of thought. A leading critic of republics as a form of government was the great French philosopher Jean
