MORTIMER NEWLIN STEAD SELLERS is a University System of Maryland Regents Professor and Director of the Center for International and Comparative Law and Professor of Law at the University of Baltimore. He is the author of The Sacred Fire of Liberty and American Republicanism, also available from Palgrave Macmillan.

• Preface Introduction The Origins of Republican Legal Theory Republican Influences on the French and American Revolutions Republican Legal Systems Republican Impartiality Republican Authority The Actual Validity of Law Ideals of Public Discourse Group Rights and Democracy Republicanism, Liberalism and the Law Basic Elements of Legislative Structure History, Liberty and Comparative Law Legal Historians and Social Change Republican Government in the United States of America Republican Principles in International Law Conclusion Bibliography

MORTIMER NEWLIN STEAD SELLERS is a University System of Maryland Regents Professor and Director of the Center for International and Comparative Law and Professor of Law at the University of Baltimore. He is the author of The Sacred Fire of Liberty and American Republicanism, also available from Palgrave Macmillan.

• Preface Introduction The Origins of Republican Legal Theory Republican Influences on the French and American Revolutions Republican Legal Systems Republican Impartiality Republican Authority The Actual Validity of Law Ideals of Public Discourse Group Rights and Democracy Republicanism, Liberalism and the Law Basic Elements of Legislative Structure History, Liberty and Comparative Law Legal Historians and Social Change Republican Government in the United States of America Republican Principles in International Law Conclusion Bibliography