Republican

1. One who believes in the idea of a republic, literally meaning "Rule of law". In other words, someone who is against mob rule and that society should be governed by laws, and not popular opinion. 2. A member of the Republican Party(GOP). The GOP is a broad coalition of right-leaning ideologies including but not limited to: Economic liberalism, conservatism, paleoconservatism, neoconservativism, laissez-faire capitalism, and libertarianism. Most republicans tend to favor "small government" as opposed to "big government." Republicans and conservatives tend to favor Equality of Opportunity as opposed to Equality of Result, meaning that people should only be guaranteed the opportunity to succeed, as opposed to the idea that people should be guaranteed success. The golden rule of conservatism is that Freedom should always be placed above Equality, a view also held by anarchists and libertarians. Some Republican positions: 1. Individual responsibility. 2. Flat tax, no one should have to give more than their fair share. 3. Strong education based on making sure schools do their jobs. Find good teachers, and help bad teachers find new jobs. 4. Low government spending. 5. Little to no gov. intervention in the economy. It can fix itself better than any bureaucratic gov. can.