At the end of Rochambeau's stay, farewell festivities at the camp were suddenly interrupted by an incident to which he laughingly referred in his memoirs as a "striking demonstration of republican liberty."

In recent years this thesis has been challenged, and Philip Pettit argues that republican liberty is based upon "non-domination" while liberal freedom is based upon "non-interference."

In his attachment to the ancient republican liberty, he joined the conspiracy of Brutus and was one of the murderers of Julius Caesar.

The satirist Juvenal, however, saw "bread and circuses" (panem et circenses) as emblematic of the loss of republican political liberty:

The Phrygian cap eventually supplanted the pileus and usurped its symbolism, becoming synonymous with republican liberty.

The Liberty of the Ancients was a participatory, republican liberty, which gave the citizens the right to directly influence politics through debates and votes in the public assembly.

Although there were big ideological issues behind the annexation issues, such as the anti-annexationists' claim that the metropolis went against the American ideal of republican liberties, the argument always eventually boiled down to specific local concerns.

Pompey is represented as the defender of republican liberties.

Our founders were republicans and believed the use of standing military forces in domestic affairs to be a threat to republican liberties.

The Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance: civic humanism and republican liberty in an age of classicism and tyranny (Princeton: 1955;1966).