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The Sleeping Sovereign: The Invention of Modern Democracy

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Richard Tuck traces the history of the distinction between sovereignty and government and its relevance to the development of democratic thought. Tuck shows that this was a central issue in the political debates of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and provides a new interpretation of the political thought of Bodin, Hobbes and Rousseau. Integrating legal theory and the history of political thought, he also provides one of the first modern histories of the constitutional referendum, and shows the importance of the United States in the history of the referendum. The book derives from the John Robert Seeley Lectures delivered by ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
The Seeley Lectures
Condition
New
Number of Pages
310
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107570580
SKU
V9781107570580
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About Richard Tuck
Richard Tuck is the author of Natural Rights Theories (Cambridge, 1979), Hobbes (1989), Philosophy and Government, 1572–1651 (Cambridge, 1993), The Rights of War and Peace: Political Thought and the International Order from Grotius to Kant (1999) and Free Riding (2008). He is the editor of standard editions of Hobbes and Grotius, and the author of many scholarly articles on the ... Read more

Reviews for The Sleeping Sovereign: The Invention of Modern Democracy
'Richard Tuck is justly known for innovative, deeply contextual scholarship that manages to revise our ordinary ways of looking at the history of political thought. His new book does not disappoint. Indeed, I warmly commend it. … offers the reader a commanding metaphor for rethinking how modern democracy was 'invented'.' Michael Mosher, The Review of Politics

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