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by 8note 1393 days ago
Your thinking of "union" not "republic"

You stop having a republic when rulers start picking their replacements. You'd lose the republicanism if say, Joe Biden appointed Hunter Biden to be the next president or if it became tradition that the next Trump always gets voted in as president.

Things like democracy and the electoral college tend to protect republicanism, but both can exist without maintaining the republic