Above all, this revolutionary republican tradition of popular sovereignty was fashioned in response to concrete political predicaments, which are still with us today — the experience of oppression, subjugation, and political domination. (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)
The question of the place of military training in relation to civil and political life arises for some theorists, especially in republican traditions. (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)
The democratic republican tradition goes back to Athens after 461 BCE with the triumph of a revolutionary democratic programme led by the poor (free men) of the polis. (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)