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Shane D. Courtland; Gerald Gaus; David Schmidtz · Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · 2026

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Author: Shane D. Courtland; Gerald Gaus; David Schmidtz
Accessed: 2026-09-01

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EstablishedLiberal theory gives liberty primacy and holds that political authority and legal constraints require justification; 'new' liberals such as T. H. Green doubted that markets were stable and defended a positive conception of liberty.