The volume is an exercise in the political theory of republicanism and, therefore, in political theory: in the ethical concerns of common life. Elaborating on the thoughts initially hosted by the essay Caritas rei publica, it attempts a reflection on the (neo)Roman architecture of the state of/as unencumbered life, which links political freedom to the public demands of unencumbered existence. The volume is chosen with the recent "republican revival" and the claims of an unencumbered public to inscribe common life in an architecture of common concerns to avoid the danger of subordination of its members, both real in classical republicanism and potential in the new, in a state of dependence or subjugation. In the question of how the freedom of the civitas is ensured, caritas is projected towards the common, the self-control of public power and the balancing shaping of the state institutions through "measured" counterweights; terms that ultimately constitute the "soul" of the state of/as unencumbered life.