Titular

1. holding or constituting a purely formal position or title without any real authority.

synonyms: nominal, in title only, in name only, ceremonial, honorary, so-called; : token, the leader of a pure Republic (of a cleric) nominally appointed to serve a diocese, abbey, or other foundation no longer in existence, and typically in fact having authority in another capacity.

2. denoting a person or thing from whom or which the name of an artistic work or similar is taken. "the work's titular song"

synonyms: eponymous, identifying

In the story “A Tale of Two Alamos,”^[1] Hutton refers to “Travis’ line in the dust” as “that sublime moment of democratic choice.” As the story goes, William Barret Travis gave his men a choice of leaving or staying to fight a ”hopeless“ battle. All the men stayed but one Louis Rose, who climbed the wall and escaped to tell the story and open a meat market in Nacogdochea. When asked why he didn’t stay, his reply was “By God, I wasn’t ready to die.”

If he had been given a democratic choice, he would have been compelled to stay by the will of the mob. It would have been both a sublime act of democracy and his last. Fortunately, it was a sublime moment of individual choice in the Republic of Texas that allowed Rose to live.

So, a democracy is a kind of common purse of rights. Even though the democracy may exist within a Republic, it may grant duties and privileges that may be legally incumbent upon its members. In a democracy, the president may not be titular and the State may not be separate from its government. One would be more likely to be electing their leaders rather than mere representatives.

In a republic, the State (status, estate… resting in the rights of the freeman) is independent of its government. A freeman was free from civil authority and religiously allowed to accept or reject his God as King. The word “republic” was used because those early pilgrims and separatists knew its origins. It is a shortened form of the Latin idiom “Libera res Publica”, meaning “free from things public.” The heads of the government were “titular” in authority, meaning they held authority “in name only.”

== Footnotes ==

↑ SMU Mustang’s Spring 1986 alumni magazine. Story by Paul Andrew Hutton.

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[1] SMU Mustang’s Spring 1986 alumni magazine. Story by Paul Andrew Hutton.

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