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Explores contemporary challenges of republicanism; discusses political philosophy, deficiencies of liberal conception of liberty, Michael J. Sandel's civic republicanism, postmodern theories of identity and difference, shared public culture, and freedom of citizens in multinational and multicultural societies; 7 articles. Summaries in English.

Le mouvement patriotique irlandais, antérieur à la Révolution française et encouragé par celle-ci, culminant dans l'activité des Irlandais unis évolua vers un républicanisme qui amalgamait la pensée constitutionnelle anglaise, la pensée des Lumières, l'exemple des révolutions américaine et française, la pensée religieuse protestante, le souvenir d'un glorieux passé catholique, la revendication économique, le messianisme. Cet amalgame masqua une divergence fondamentale entre un projet républicain rationaliste unissant catholiques et protestants et un autre trouvant son inspiration dans la reconquête d'une identité nationale catholique.

Christine Le Bozec, Republican conceptions : the opportunists (Boissy d'Anglas, Lanjuinais, Durand de Maillane...).
On 14 Germinal Year III, the Convention elected an eleven-member commission. They became the final editors of the Constitution of Year III. Observing their political trajectory, past and future, and their discourse at the time, Christine Le Bozec establishes the unity of their social conceptions (e.g., the Nation must be led by its "best" — in other words, property holders ; equality is to be limited to the civil domain) and of their institutional conceptions. However, they diverged over conceptions of the Republic. For some, the Republic had simply been a means of defense, among other possibilities at another time, of the ideals of 1789. For the others, former Girondins, the Republic was the only possible régime.