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31 published claims from this book.
- A lightly governed colony remains unfree if rulers hold arbitrary power.
- Assuming officials are inherently corrupt may itself breed the corruption it seeks to prevent.
- Civic republicanism is a distinct doctrine separate from civic humanism and communitarianism.
- Civic republicanism only recently began addressing race, multiculturalism, education, and intergenerational justice.
- Civic virtue advances republican freedom instrumentally, not intrinsically.
- Civic virtue is an instrumental means to liberty, not a perfectionist end
- Classical republican martial enthusiasm was defensive in intent despite seeming imperialistic.
- Contestation, not collective will, legitimately constrains discretionary power.
- Delegated discretionary authority need not reduce freedom when properly constrained
- Economic dependence on employers or charity can itself constitute a form of domination
- Free movement of people strains the republican ideal of non-domination against bounded civic community.
- Freedom as non-domination is not reducible to security of non-interference.
- Freedom increases with reduced domination, not with improved insight into one’s dominator
- Freedom means no one holds arbitrary power to interfere with us.
- In republican theory, law itself creates freedom rather than merely restricting it
- Laws meant to enhance freedom can themselves create new arbitrary power.
- Negative liberty means being free from interference in one’s choices.
- Non-interference fails to capture liberty because slaves with lenient masters count as free.
- On the republican view, non-arbitrary laws do not reduce freedom but can enhance it.
- Political freedom is constituted by institutions, not by the absence of actual interference
- Positive liberty means acting on one’s second-order desires through self-mastery.
- Power counts as non-arbitrary when those subject to it control how it is exercised.
- Predictability of domination does not reduce domination itself
- Republican ‘arbitrariness’ means sheer lack of control, not injustice.
- Republican freedom can be equated with an extended rule of law
- Republican freedom can relate to noninterference in various distinct ways.
- Republican freedom means absence of dependence on arbitrary power, not non-interference.
- Republicans hold liberty as non-domination while liberals define it as mere non-interference.
- The empire of law works only when informal social norms sustain legal compliance.
- Unfreedom lies in the structural power to dominate, not in actual interference.
- Valuing a relationship overall does not justify preserving its arbitrary power