Agents Of The People: Democracy And Popular Sovereignty In British And Swedish Parliamentary And Public Debates, 1734-1800
by Pasi Ihalainen /
2010 / English / PDF
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Analysing parliamentary references to the people, this book provides a more nuanced interpretation of eighteenth-century re-evaluations of democracy. It shows how interaction between parliamentarians and the public sphere in different political cultures produced more modern conceptions of the legitimacy of political power.
