It would be an independent state as a democratic republic.

Even so, their works and military victories would have helped the country to become a democratic republic.

The military in a democratic republic must be an extension of the larger society.

However, countries which call themselves democratic republics do not always hold free or fair elections.

He set up a rather modern democratic republic in Florence.

The future country was intended to be a democratic parliamentary republic.

Survivors wanted only to melt back into the democratic Republic.

The nation was to be a democratic federal republic, governed by a president and parliament.

The system of government is a democratic, federal, representative, parliamentary republic.

However, in practice countries that describe themselves as democratic republics do not always hold free or fair elections.