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Violence and Legitimacy: European Monarchy in the Age of Revolutions

By Volker Sellin

Book information

Publisher
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Year
2017
ISBN
9783110561395, 9783110558395
DOI
10.1515/9783110561395
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
26 MB (27501894 bytes)
Pages
346\0
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-07-26 06:28:06

Description

Benjamin Constant distinguished two kinds of government: unlawful government based on violence, and legitimate government based on the general will. In Europe monarchy was for over a thousand years considered the natural form of legitimate government. The sources of its legitimacy were the dynastic principle, religion, and the ability to protect against foreign aggression. At the end of the eighteenth century the revolutions in America and France called into question the traditional legitimacy of monarchy, but Volker Sellin shows that in response to this challenge monarchy opened up new sources of legitimacy by concluding alliances with constitutionalism, nationalism, and social reform. In some cases the age of revolution brought on a new type of leader, basing his claim to power on charisma. Eine europäische Geschichte der Monarchie im 19. Jahrhundert

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