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Consent, Coercion, and Limit: The Medieval Origins of Parliamentary Democracy

By Arthur P. Monahan

Book information

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Year
1987
ISBN
9780773564060
DOI
10.1515/9780773564060
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (20358803 bytes)
Series
McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas; 10
Pages
368\368
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-09-26 21:42:01

Description

The concepts of popular consent and limit, as applied to the exercise of political authority, are fundamental features of parliamentary democracy. Both these concepts played a role in medieval political theorizing, although the meaning and significance of political consent in this thought has not been well understood. In a careful, scholarly survey of the major political texts from Augustine to Ockham, Arthur Monahan analyses the contribution of medieval thought to the development of these two concepts and to the correlative concept of coercion.

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