Daniel Lee

Popular Sovereignty in Early Modern Constitutional Thought

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Produktbeschreibung

Examining the intellectual origins of the constitutional doctrine of 'popular sovereignty', this book explores the importance of Roman law as a chief source of modern constitutional thought.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Constitutional Theory
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 378
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 165mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 734g
• ISBN-13: 9780198745167
• ISBN-10: 0198745168
• Artikelnr.: 47868659

Autorenporträt

Daniel Lee is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Popular Sovereignty, Constitutionalism, and the Civil
Law
* 1: The Lex Regia: The Theory of Popular Sovereignty in the Roman Law
Tradition
* 2: The Medieval Law of Peoples
* 3: Roman Law and the Renaissance State: Dominium, Jurisdiction, and
the Humanist Theory of Princely Authority
* 4: Popular Resistance and Popular Sovereignty: Roman Law and the
Monarchomach Doctrine of Popular Sovereignty
* 5: The Roman Law Foundations of Bodin's Early Doctrine of Sovereignty
* 6: Jean Bodin, Popular Sovereignty, and Constitutional Government
* 7: Popular Sovereignty, Civil Association, and the Respublica:
Johannes Althusius and the German Publicists
* 8: Popular Liberty, Princely Government, and the Roman Law in Hugo
Grotius' De Jure Belli ac Pacis
* 9: Popular Sovereignty and the Civil Law in Stuart Constitutional
Thought
* Conclusion