Document Type
Article
Journal Title
Oxford Journal of Legal Studies
Volume
11
First Page
273
Publication Date
Summer 1991
Abstract
This article will advocate the political search for truth and justice, which I shall call 'republicanism', and a technique for finding them, which I shall call 'representative democracy'. 'Republicanism' is the belief that truth and justice exist and should guide the actions both of individuals and of the state. 'Representative democracy' is the system in which the citizens select representatives to determine what the laws should be, and to apply them. Republican impartiality provides the standpoint from which different moral intuitions or conceptions of the common good should be evaluated in a just state.
Recommended Citation
Mortimer N. Sellers,
Republican Impartiality,
11
Oxford Journal of Legal Studies
273
(1991).
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