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Republicans and liberals both seek liberty through law. Republican laws arise in turn through service to the common good, discovered by popular sovereignty under a mixed and balanced constitution. Liberals first differed from republicans in their disregard for the sources of law, so long as citizens were left alone. This led eventually to new conceptions of liberty, first as freedom from government, then as the ability to do what one wants.
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Sellers, M.N.S. (1998). Republicanism, Liberalism, and the Law. In: The Sacred Fire of Liberty. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230371811_34
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