Pettit, Philip2026-01-022026-01-02ORCID:/0000-0002-0355-3896/work/188878964https://hdl.handle.net/1885/733802673Frank Lovett provides a fine account of civic republicanism but focuses too exclusively on freedom as a property of choices. The account can be improved if room is also made, as it was by figures in the long republican tradition, for freedom as a property of persons. The well-ordered republic is a regime that enables citizens to count equally as free persons both in relation to one another and in relation to their government.19en2025-05-2610.1080/13698230.2025.2510867105006509973