Article: Democratic Justice.(Book Review)

By Ian Shapiro. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. 333 pages.

In November 1793, the well-known Girondiste and salonniere, Marie-Jeanne Roland, was charged with counterrevolutionary conspiracy. At one point, her interrogator told her that "the words liberty and justice can become very equivocal ones when one doesn't add that equality is the basis of the Republic." Mme Roland quickly replied that "equality was an inevitable consequence of liberty and justice" (Gita May, Madame Roland and the Age of Revolution [1970], 262-88). Since the French Revolution, justice has been closely linked to democratic equality. Or at least, many have assumed or proposed such a ...

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