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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 February 2016
      15 February 2016
      ISBN:
      9781316417782
      9781107130142
      9781107570580
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316417782
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.51kg, 310 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.37kg, 310 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Political Theory, History, Politics and International Relations, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
      Series:
      The Seeley Lectures
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    Subjects:
    Political Theory, History, Politics and International Relations, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
    Series:
    The Seeley Lectures
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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 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.

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    '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 Source: The Review of Politics

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