Civic republicanism only recently began addressing race, multiculturalism, education, and intergenerational justice.

Evidence

In many respects, civic republicanism remains a still underdeveloped political doctrine. Further work is required in all the areas discussed above, and there are many issues central to the concerns of contemporary political theorists and philosophers that contemporary civic republicans have only recently begun to examine. Among the latter, there are now at least initial treatments of multiculturalism (Laborde 2008; Lovett 2010; Honohan 2013; Bachvarova 2014), race (Coffee 2020; Rogers 2020), education policy (Peterson 2011; Hinchliffe 2014; Macleod 2015), and intergenerational justice (Beckman 2016; Katz 2017; Pinto 2019), although substantial work certainly remains to be done. — Frank Lovett, Republicanism, 72

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the reader’s observation that libertarianism and republicanism both started as economistic/legal theories that had to grow into domains like race and education.
• SEED: Possible essay angle: what republicanism’s late arrival to race and intergenerational justice says about the doctrine’s historical blind spots.
• corroborated: 5 independent passages support this claim — Frank Lovett, Republicanism, 72