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People power : popular sovereignty from Machiavelli to modernity / edited by Robert G. Ingram and Christopher Barker.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2022.Description: 1 online resource (x, 275 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781526165657
  • 9781526165633
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • JC327 .P467 2022
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Contents:
Machiavelli's 'moments' -- Death and taxes in Machiavelli's Florentine state -- Taming the Parliament : John Locke on legislative limits, prerogative and popular sovereignty -- Montesquieu and the theory of limited sovereignty -- The revolution for society : rethinking popular sovereignty, American independence and the Age of the Democratic Revolution -- Filippo Mazzei's Atlantic revolutions : a new dawn for popular sovereignty or populism? -- Popular sovereignty as populism in the early American republic -- Like a god on earth : popular sovereignty in Tocqueville's Democracy in America -- Plural voting and popular government in Victorian Britain -- Modern representation and the popular will -- Sovereignty, God and the historians -- Conclusion: what is popular sovereignty?.
Subject: This book analyses popular sovereignty, one of the fundamental features of modern politics and history. It critically engages with the key thinkers responsible for creating and criticizing popular sovereignty and covers topics such as war, finance, legislation, revolution, religion and political ideology.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

People power -- Machiavelli's 'moments' -- Death and taxes in Machiavelli's Florentine state -- Taming the Parliament : John Locke on legislative limits, prerogative and popular sovereignty -- Montesquieu and the theory of limited sovereignty -- The revolution for society : rethinking popular sovereignty, American independence and the Age of the Democratic Revolution -- Filippo Mazzei's Atlantic revolutions : a new dawn for popular sovereignty or populism? -- Popular sovereignty as populism in the early American republic -- Like a god on earth : popular sovereignty in Tocqueville's Democracy in America -- Plural voting and popular government in Victorian Britain -- Modern representation and the popular will -- Sovereignty, God and the historians -- Conclusion: what is popular sovereignty?.

This book analyses popular sovereignty, one of the fundamental features of modern politics and history. It critically engages with the key thinkers responsible for creating and criticizing popular sovereignty and covers topics such as war, finance, legislation, revolution, religion and political ideology.

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