This book aims to discuss the place of ordinary people as to law and legislation in the history of legal philosophy. It analyzes the limits of ordinary people-law relation and the justifications implicitly or explicitly asserted for these limits. The book's core quest is to find out the reasons for diverging viewpoints about legislative capacities of ordinary men, especially as a meeting point of descriptive and prescriptive arguments. Even the most descriptive theories have some implicit assumptions about how ordinary people-law relation can be. In this sense, none of these theories presents...