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Modern republicanism is a contemporary political ideology centered on citizenship in a state organized as a modern republic.
During the Age of Enlightenment, anti-monarchism extended beyond the civic humanism of the Renaissance. Classical republicanism, still supported by philosophers such as Rousseau and Montesquieu, was only one of several theories seeking to limit the power of monarchies rather than directly opposing them.
Liberalism and socialism departed from classical republicanism and fueled the development of the more modern republicanism.