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The Sleeping Sovereign: The Invention of Modern Democracy - The Seeley Lectures Tuck, Richard (Harvard University, Massachusetts)
The Sleeping Sovereign: The Invention of Modern Democracy - The Seeley Lectures
Tuck, Richard (Harvard University, Massachusetts)
An exploration of the important distinction in political theory between a 'sovereign' and a 'government' state, from its first appearance in Bodin's writings in the late sixteenth century, through its seventeenth-century treatment by Grotius, Hobbes and Pufendorf, to the eighteenth-century response, and the presentation of 'government' in the American Constitution.
320 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | February 18, 2016 |
| ISBN13 | 9781107130142 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 310 |
| Dimensions | 223 × 145 × 22 mm · 486 g |
| Language | English |