Popular Sovereignty in Historical Perspective
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Popular Sovereignty in Historical Perspective

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Popular Sovereignty in Historical Perspective

About this book

This collaborative volume offers the first historical reconstruction of the concept of popular sovereignty from antiquity to the twentieth century. First formulated between the late sixteenth and mid-seventeenth centuries, the various early modern conceptions of the doctrine were heavily indebted to Roman reflection on forms of government and Athenian ideas of popular power. This study, edited by Richard Bourke and Quentin Skinner, traces successive transformations of the doctrine, rather than narrating a linear development. It examines critical moments in the career of popular sovereignty, spanning antiquity, medieval Europe, the early modern wars of religion, the revolutions of the eighteenth century and their aftermath, decolonisation and mass democracy. Featuring original work by an international team of scholars, the book offers a reconsideration of one of the formative principles of contemporary politics by exploring its descent from classical city-states to the advent of the modern state.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of figures
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. List of contributors
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 Athenian democracy and popular tyranny
  11. 2 Popular sovereignty as control of office-holders: Aristotle on Greek democracy
  12. 3 Popular sovereignty in the late Roman Republic: Cicero and the will of the people
  13. 4 Popolo and law: late medieval sovereignty in Marsilius and the jurists
  14. 5 Democratic sovereignty and democratic government: the sleeping sovereign
  15. 6 Parliamentary sovereignty, popular sovereignty, and Henry Parker’s adjudicative standpoint
  16. 7 Popular sovereignty and representation in the English Civil War
  17. 8 Prerogative, popular sovereignty, and the American founding
  18. 9 Popular sovereignty and political representation: Edmund Burke in the context of eighteenth-century thought
  19. 10 From popular sovereignty to civil society in post-revolutionary France
  20. 11 Popular sovereignty as state theory in the nineteenth century
  21. 12 Popular sovereignty and anti-colonialism
  22. 13 Popular sovereignty in an age of mass democracy: politics, parliament and parties in Weber, Kelsen, Schmitt and beyond
  23. Bibliography
  24. Index