There was death for a narrowly defined ideal of republican Liberty based upon a concept of collective political authority. ... "[B]oth men,"" Martin writes, "would affirm [liberty], but liberty within the context of authority."" ... Machiavelli identified liberty as man's self-assertion in the fulfillment of his own aspirations and desires. ... Daniel Fowle, who advanced the notion that legislative authority and power derived from the liberty of the people, the exclusive guardians of their Constitution, was particularly influenced by the illustrious Frenchman. ...

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