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The Sacred Fire of Liberty: Republicanism, Liberalism, and the Law

The Sacred Fire of Liberty: Republicanism, Liberalism, and the Law

Sellers, Mortimer N.

Hardcover

PhilosophyGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0814781098
ISBN13: 9780814781098
Publisher: New York Univ Pr
Published: Nov 1 1998
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.86 Width: 5.75 Depth: 8.83
Language: English

Republicanism, liberalism, and the rule of law have a long and tangled common history in the development of Western institutions. All three claim to secure liberty for citizens or subjects of the state, without always agreeing about what this should mean in practice. Mortimer Sellers' The Sacred Fire of Liberty places the concept of liberty into the context of its political origins, and explains the structures and vocabulary of liberty that still dominate contemporary legal and political debate. Contrary to the common opposition of liberal and republican traditions as rival conceptions of political legitimacy, Sellers demonstrates the close links between the two, their common roots in developing Western conceptions of liberty, and their eventual divergence over structures of government following the French revolution.

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