Aristotle himself called the Spartans a monarchy numerous times in the Politics I don t understand why you keep trying to call them a republic Furthermore your comments above don t seem any improvement to me on the language in the article now which is very clear that republics come in many shapes and sizes in fact limiting them all to two so called models seems more restrictive to me than it should be Use of the words genus and species as I ve remarked to you before is a misapplication of taxonomy to political science It may be useful for purposes of casual analogy but we can not resort to it in an encyclopedia article or we will confuse and mislead our readers You have yet to demonstrate that any authority refers to a government such as that current in the United Kingdom as a republic As noted in this paragraph Aristotle himself describes Sparta as a monarchy one in which the monarch held weakened powers yes but fundamentally part of the monarchy category Your ideas have the merit of being an unusual take on republics which has given all of us cause to consider political terminology but I am afraid your quotations though well cited do not appear to me to compel us to accept your two model theory of republics it s original research something Wikipedia is not 20 37 26 Mar 2004 UTC