Republican democracy is a republic which is also a democracy. One meaning of the word republic is "object for the people," which embodies the notion of a democracy, making the term "republican democracy" redundant. An alternative definition of republic is any government that is not a monarchy, and by this definition there are abundant examples of states that are republics but that are not democracies, and of states that are democracies but not republics. It could also refer to the notion representative democracy, as one meaning of republic is a system of restricted democracy.