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Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This collaborative volume offers the first historical reconstruction of the concept of popular sovereignty. The collection! edited by Richard Bourke and Quentin Skinner! charts the history of the doctrine by bringing together leading international experts specialising across a range of periods! spanning ancient! medieval! early modern and modern political thought. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Richard Bourke; 1. Athenian democracy and popular tyranny Kinch Hoekstra; 2. Popular sovereignty as control of officeholders: Aristotle on Greek democracy Melissa Lane; 3. Popular sovereignty in the late Roman republic: Cicero and the will of the people Valentina Arena; 4. Popolo and law: late medieval sovereignty in Marsilius and the jurists Serena Ferente; 5. Democratic sovereignty and democratic government: the sleeping sovereign Richard Tuck; 6. Parliamentary sovereignty, popular sovereignty, and Henry Parker's adjudicative standpoint Alan Cromartie; 7. Popular sovereignty and representation in the English Civil War Lorenzo Sabbadini; 8. Prerogative, popular sovereignty, and the American founding Eric Nelson; 9. Popular sovereignty and political representation: Edmund Burke in the context of eighteenth-century thought Richard Bourke; 10. From popular sovereignty to civil society in post-revolutionary France Bryan Garsten; 11. Popular sovereignty as state theory in the nineteenth century Duncan Kelly; 12. Popular sovereignty and anticolonialism Karuna Mantena; 13. Popular sovereignty in an age of mass democracy: politics, parliament, and parties in Weber, Kelsen, Schmitt and beyond Timothy Stanton; Bibliography; Index....
