Editing Classical republicanism (section)

====Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth====
In the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]], republicanism was the influential ideology. After the establishment of the Commonwealth of Two Nations, republicans supported the status quo, of having a very weak monarch, and opposed those who thought a stronger monarchy was needed. These mostly Polish republicans, such as [[Łukasz Górnicki]], [[Andrzej Wolan]], and [[Stanisław Konarski]], were well read in classical and Renaissance texts and firmly believed that their state was a republic on the Roman model, and started to call their state the [[Rzeczpospolita]]. Atypically, Polish–Lithuanian republicanism was not the ideology of the commercial class, but rather of the landed nobility, which would lose power if the monarchy were expanded. This resulted in an oligarchy of the great landed magnates.<ref>Jerzy Lukowski, ''Disorderly Liberty: The political culture of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the eighteenth century'' (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010).{{ISBN?}}</ref>