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The Sleeping Sovereign: The Invention of Modern Democracy

By Richard Tuck

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
110713014X, 9781107130142
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1287837 bytes)
Series
The Seeley Lectures
Pages
310\310
Scanned
yes
Time added
2016-12-13 17:19:05
Political;Philosophy;Politics & Social Sciences;De

Description

Richard Tuck traces the history of the distinction between sovereignty and government and its relevance to the development of democratic thought. Tuck shows that this was a central issue in the political debates of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and provides a new interpretation of the political thought of Bodin, Hobbes and Rousseau. Integrating legal theory and the history of political thought, he also provides one of the first modern histories of the constitutional referendum, and shows the importance of the United States in the history of the referendum. The book derives from the John Robert Seeley Lectures delivered by Richard Tuck at the University of Cambridge in 2012, and will appeal to students and scholars of the history of ideas, political theory and political philosophy.

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