 Neo-republicanism (see entry)  is a family of views that emphasizes the close connection between justice and a particular kind of freedom. Namely, the purpose of social institutions is to protect us from domination by others and to ensure we can act independently from the wills of others. Unlike freedom from interference, freedom from domination is specifically about the power relation: a slaveowner who could interfere with her slaves but chooses not is still constraining their freedom. In this case, slaves are not free from the will of their owner even if they happen to live their lives mostly without interference. Thus, domination is a worry whenever one agent has superior power over another and can asymmetrically influence the choice situation of the weaker agent. However, it is sometimes, even usually, the case that we cannot eliminate differentials in social position or power, but one can be subject to superior power without being dominated if the exercise of that power is suitably constrained or directed. There is a fair amount of disagreement over the precise nature of these constraints, but neo-republicans have converged on a set of institutional prescriptions that ensure that citizens are not merely subject to power: the rule of law, constitutional protections, democracy, due process, and the provision of a social minimum at the very least. These institutional structures have a two-fold objective. First, they constrain state power such that there is no public domination. Second, they direct state power effectively towards its justificatory purpose: governing the relations between citizens such that there is no private domination. These purposes can only be achieved within a republican constitutional order and so freedom is only possible in the state. This is, perhaps, the key idea behind republicanism: we do not give up freedom in order to achieve the security of citizenship in a state, citizenship in a state is a precondition of freedom.