Anmerkungen:
Based on author's thesis (doctoral - Princeton University, 2010) issued under title: Civil law and civil sovereignty : popular sovereignty, Roman law and the civilian foundations of the constitutional state in early modern political thought
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-347) and index
Beschreibung:
Introduction : Popular Sovereignty, Constitutionalism, and the Civil Law -- The Lex Regia : The Theory of Popular Sovereignty in the Roman Law Tradition -- The Medieval Law of Peoples -- Roman Law and the Renaissance State : Dominium, Jurisdiction, and the Humanist Theory of Princely Authority -- Popular Resistance and Popular Sovereignty : Roman Law and the Monarchomach Doctrine of Popular Sovereignty -- The Roman Law Foundations of Bodin's Early Doctrine of Sovereignty -- Jean Bodin, Popular Sovereignty, and Constitutional Government -- Popular Sovereignty, Civil Association, and the Respublica : Johannes Althusius and the German Publicists -- Popular Liberty, Princely Government, and the Roman Law in Hugo Grotius' De Jure Belli ac Pacis -- Popular Sovereignty and the Civil Law in English Constitutional Thought -- Conclusion