Liberal Republicans

Gordon S. Wood, The Creation of the American Republic J776-/7.S7 (Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press, 1969), pp 60 5 Michael Kammen, Spheres of Liberty Changing Perceptions of Liberty in American Culture (Madison University of Wisconsin Press, 1986). On pre-liberal republican views of liberty, see Quentin Skinner, Liberty Before Liberalism (Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 1998). 

Neither bribery, nor interest, nor soft words, nor condescension, nor proof of misrule by local officers, nor even violence, can shake the deep-rooted love of the liberated black man for the party whose greatest achievement was universal emancipation and universal citizenship. .. The instant he is let alone, the moment the load of fear is taken off, the moment he dare stand up in his own right and his own strength, free to think, free to act, and free to choose, that moment he stands up ready and willing to vote the Republican ticket. For the negro, although unlearned, is no fool. 

Republicanism shares with liberalism a concern for individual liberty, but that liberty is rather differently conceived as non-domination rather than as non-interference (Pettit, 2001, pp 138—144 Skinner, 1998), or as having a status as an independent person not subject to the arbitrary will of anyone else (Skinner, 2003). It is not, as in liberalism, primarily a matter of being able to exercise one s individual rights and liberties without interference. One may have individual rights and liberties but not be a free, independent person if those rights and liberties may arbitrarily be taken away. Conversely, one s status as an independent person is not compromised by restrictions to one s particular rights and liberties if one has freely consented to those restrictions. Free, independent persons are citizens of the republic and together share responsibility... 

Arendt, H. (1966) The Origins of Totalitarianism, Second Edition, Harcourt, Inc, New York Arendt, H. (1970) On Violence, Harcourt and Brace World, New York Arendt, H. (1978) The Life of the Mind Part One, Thinking, Seeker Warburg, London Bellamy, R. (2002) Being liberal with republicanism s radical heritage , Res Publica, vol 8, no 3,... 

Next to the personality factors are the candidate s stands on various issues. You see five issues, each with a sliding scale of one (at the far left, representing liberal) to six (conservative). A Republican who wants to get tough on crime, for example, will have a rank of six. A Democrat who wants to solve the unemployment problem will haye a rating of one. 

For many Irish scholars - whether liberal or leftist, republican or revisionist -... 

A similar situation arose with Century Village Deerfield Beach. H. Irwin Levy, the developer of Century Village, points to anti-Semitic feelings when he first tried to build Century Village Deerfield Beach. Deerfield Beach was a small, conservative Christian town that had little desire to add 15,000 liberal Jews from New York (Sanua 2007). Levy had difficulty in obtaining a building permit. Deerfield was a very small community of about five thousand. All five members of the City Commission were conservative Republicans who were clearly nervous about losing their positions when 14,000 mostly liberal Jews moved in. (They did.)... 

Other republican group include the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) and the Continuity Irish Republican Army (Continuity IRA or Continuity Army Council). 

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