Daniel Lee (Assistant Pro Assistant Professor of Political Science

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: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 586g
• ISBN-13: 9780198824237
• ISBN-10: 0198824238
• Artikelnr.: 52615140

Autorenporträt

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.

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