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Informationen zum Autor Daniel Lee is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Klappentext Examining the intellectual origins of the constitutional doctrine of 'popular sovereignty', this book explores the importance of Roman law as a chief source of modern constitutional thought. Zusammenfassung Examining the intellectual origins of the constitutional doctrine of 'popular sovereignty', this book explores the importance of Roman law as a chief source of modern constitutional thought. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Popular Sovereignty, Constitutionalism, and the Civil Law 1: The Lex Regia: The Theory of Popular Sovereignty in the Roman Law Tradition 2: The Medieval Law of Peoples 3: Roman Law and the Renaissance State: Dominium, Jurisdiction, and the Humanist Theory of Princely Authority 4: Popular Resistance and Popular Sovereignty: Roman Law and the Monarchomach Doctrine of Popular Sovereignty 5: The Roman Law Foundations of Bodin's Early Doctrine of Sovereignty 6: Jean Bodin, Popular Sovereignty, and Constitutional Government 7: Popular Sovereignty, Civil Association, and the Respublica: Johannes Althusius and the German Publicists 8: Popular Liberty, Princely Government, and the Roman Law in Hugo Grotius' De Jure Belli ac Pacis 9: Popular Sovereignty and the Civil Law in Stuart Constitutional Thought Conclusion
