Popular Sovereignty in Early Modern Constitutional Thought
Popular sovereignty - the doctrine that the public powers of state originate in a concessive grant of power from the people - is the cardinal doctrine of modern constitutional theory, placing full constitutional authority in the people at large, rather than in the hands of judges, kings, or a political elite. This book explores the intellectual origins of this influential doctrine and investigates its chief source in late medieval and early modern thought - thelegal science of Roman law.Long regarded the principal source for modern legal reasoning, Roman law had a profound impact on the major architects of popular sovereignty such as Françoi…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-106244-5
- EAN: 9780191062445
- Produktnummer: 29056835
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 375 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 32'045 KB
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Daniel Lee is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and specializes in political theory, the history of political thought, and jurisprudence. His research concerns the reception of Roman law in later medieval and early modern political thought and its influence on modern doctrines of sovereignty and rights, especially in the legal and political thought of Jean Bodin, Hugo Grotius, and ThomasHobbes.
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