TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tuck,Richard
TI  - Sleeping sovereign : the invention of modern democracy 
T2  - The Seeley lectures
SN  - 9781107570580 
AV  - JC423 .T76 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Bodin, Jean,
KW  - Hobbes, Thomas,
KW  - Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Sovereignty
KW  - Referendum
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Political Science  / History & Theory
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note: Preface; 1. Jean Bodin; 2. Grotius, Hobbes and Pufendorf; 3. The eighteenth century; 4. America; Conclusion; Index
N2  - "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 Richard Tuck at the University of Cambridge in 2012, and will appeal to students and scholars of the history of ideas, political theory and political philosophy"--
ER  -