Popular Sovereignty in Early Modern Constitutional Thought

ISBN-13: 9780198824237 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 384 str.

Daniel Lee

Opis

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.

Recenzje

One of the most significant merits of this volume…is its separation of the analysis of popular sovereignty from the recent trend in Anglophone scholarship to link this concept to that of resistance and, by extension, of republicanism. [Lee] has thus reinvigorated a classical perspective on the origins of sovereignty.

O autorze

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 Thomas Hobbes.