Republican liberty is a protected status, with democracy merely instrumental to it

Evidence

The important point to notice, then, is that the writers at whom we have been looking, the writers who identify with the broad republican tradition of thinking, take liberty to be defined by a status in which the evils associated with interference are avoided rather than by access to the instruments of democratic control, participatory or representative. Democratic control is certainly important in the tradition, but its importance comes, not from any definitional connection with liberty, but from the fact that it is a means of furthering liberty. — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 161

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the core republican distinction: liberty as non-domination status vs. democratic participation as mere means.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s civic-republican research thread on how institutions (including democratic control) serve freedom without being its definition. — connects to: Republican tradition is unified by a distinctive way of conceptualizing liberty — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 114; Republican democrats treated participation as a means to, not the definition of, liberty. — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 158; The republican tradition prized liberty as non-domination, not democratic participation — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 166 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• The republican tradition prized liberty as non-domination, not democratic participation #corroborates (0.90) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 166
• Republican freedom means absence of dependence on arbitrary power, not non-interference. #corroborates (0.85) — Frank Lovett, Republicanism, 18
• Private liberties avoid heteronomy only when citizens act as democratic co-legislators #complicates (0.85) — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 86
• Freedom in the republican tradition means non-domination rather than merely non-interference #corroborates (0.82) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 186
• Republicans hold liberty as non-domination while liberals define it as mere non-interference. #corroborates (0.78) — Frank Lovett, Republicanism, 46