People power : popular sovereignty from Machiavelli to modernity /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Ingram, Robert G. (Editor), Barker, Chris (Christopher James) (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2022.
Subjects:	Sovereignty. Democratization. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Front matter
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
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?
Index