Cosmopolitan republicanism has only very recently begun to figure in contemporary global justice debates. Despite this, however, it can be traced back to the republicanism of the Enlightenment. Indeed, Enlightenment republicans, such as Price, Diderot, Turgot, and Kant, broke radically from the earlier commonwealthmen tradition of republicanism, emphasizing civic membership in a bounded political community. Instead, they equated the republican ideal of common liberty under the rule of law with federal and transnational political structures. This shift to federalism and transnationalism was motivated by the insight that membership in a bounded community can simply perpetuate the oldest form of domination: the domination of noncitizens by citizens. For there to be secure nondomination without domination globally, it became necessary to construct a cosmopolitan republic of humanity.
The republican ideal of liberty as nondomination under the rule of law came to the forefront of...
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Allen, M. (2011). Cosmopolitan Republicanism. In: Chatterjee, D.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Justice. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9160-5_751
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