Exclusivist Republicanism and the Non-Monarchical Republic

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6352002
AutoresJames Hankins (Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts,, autor de correspondencia)
Año2010
Volumen38
Número4
Páginas452-482
Fecha de publicación2010-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPolitical Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0090-5917 • E-ISSN: 1552-7476
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0090591710366369
OpenAlexW2072741514
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas27
Referencias citadas9

The idea that a republic is the only legitimate form of government and that non-elective monarchy and hereditary political privileges are by definition illegitimate is an artifact of late eighteenth century republicanism, though it has roots in the “godly republics” of the seventeenth century. It presupposes understanding a republic ( respublica) to be a non-monarchical form of government. The latter definition is a discursive practice that goes back only to the fifteenth century and is not found in Roman or medieval sources. This article explains how the definition emerged in Renaissance Italy

Ancient history · Art history · Fifteenth · Government (linguistics · Linguistics · Monarchy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · The Renaissance · The Republic · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Classics · European Political History Analysis · History · Law · Philosophy · Political Theory and Influence