&gt; The point of a Republic is to temper the temporary fashions in political thinking with adherence to inviolable principles.<p>That&#x27;s arguably the point of a constitutional representative democracy as composed to an unlimited-powers direct democracy; as both of those are within the scope of systems to which the label &quot;Republic&quot; applies (as are many others), its a pretty odd notion to consider it the point of &quot;a Republic&quot; in any general sense, though it might be the point of the particular design of a particular republic.