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546------Notes to pages 268-27553.]. Ritter, Hegel and the French Revolution, trans. R. D. Winfield (Cambridge,Mass., 1982).54. F. I. Michelman, "The Supreme Court 1985 TermForeword: Traces of Self­Government," Harvard Law Review 100 (1986) : 4-77.55. F. I. Michelman, "Conceptions of Democracy in American ConstitutionalArgument: Voting Rights," Florida Law Review 41 (1989): 443-90 (hereafter,"Conceptions of Democracy: Voting").56. See H. Arendt, On Revolution (New York, 1963); see also her On Violence (NewYork, 1970).57. F. I. Michelman, "Political Truth and the Rule of Law," Tel Aviv UniversityStudies in Law 8 ( 1988): 283: "The political society envisioned by bumper-stickerrepublicans is the society of private rights bearers, an association whose firstprinciple is the protection of the lives, liberties, and estates of its individualmembers. In that society, the state is justified by the protection it gives to thosepre-political interests; the purpose of the constitution is to ensure that the stateapparatus, the government, provides such protection for the people at largerather than serves the special interests of the governors or their patrons; thefunction of citizenship is to operate the ' constitution and thereby motivate thegovernors to act according to that protective purpose; and the value to you ofyour political franchiseyour right to vote and speak, to have your views heardand countedis the handle it gives you on influencing the system so that it willadequately heed and protect your particular, pre-political rights and otherinterests."58. Michelman, "Political Truth," p. 284: "In civic constitutional vision, politicalsociety is primarily the society not of rights-bearers, but of citizens, an associationwhose first principle is the creation and provision of a public realm within whicha people, together, argue and reason about the right terms of social coexistence,terms that they will set together and which they understand as comprising theircommon good . ... Hence, the state is justified by its purpose of establishing andordering the public sphere within which persons can achieve freedom in thesense of self-government by the exercise of reason in public dialogue."59. Michelman, "Conceptions of Democracy: Voting," pp. 446f.60. Michelman, "Conceptions of Democracy: Voting," p. 484.61. F. I. Michelman, "Conceptions of Democracy in American ConstitutionalArgument: The Case of Pornography Regulation," Tennessee Law Review 56( 1989): 293 (hereafter, "Conceptions of Democracy: Pornography").62. F. I. Michelman, "Bringing the Law to Life: A Plea for Disenchantment,"Cornell Law Review 74 (1989): 257.63. Michelman, "Conceptions of Democracy: Pornography," p. 293.64. Michelman, "Law's Republic," pp. 1526f.65. Michelman, "Law's Republic," p. 1529; he goes on (p. 1531) as follows:The full lesson of the civil rights movement will escape whoever focuses too