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jm160195 · #1 Apr 29, 2005, 06:40 AM

Does republicanism matter a as theory/system of government? Why or why not?

HANK · Apr 29, 2005, 01:21 PM

Republicanism is, in the first place, a theory of freedom and, in the second, a theory of government. It equates freedom with the enjoyment of non-domination: of living without a master in one's life. It derives from the value of such freedom both an account of what the state ought to be doing and of how the state ought to be itself constrained. It provides a ground on which to elaborate both a substantive and a constitutional theory of the state.

HANK



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