People power: Popular sovereignty from Machiavelli to modernity

Front Matter -- Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes On Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- List Of Abbreviations -- People Power -- Machiavelli's 'moments' -- Death And Taxes In Machiavelli's Florentine State -- Taming The Parliament: John Locke On Legislative Limits, Prerogative And Popular Sovereignty -- Montesquieu And The Theory Of Limited Sovereignty -- The Revolution For Society: Rethinking Popular Sovereignty, American Independence And The Age Of The Democratic Revolution Filippo Mazzei's Atlantic Revolutions: A New Dawn For Popular Sovereignty Or Populism? -- Popular Sovereignty As Populism In The Early American Republic -- Like A God On Earth: Popular Sovereignty In Tocqueville's Democracy In America -- Plural Voting And Popular Government In Victorian Britain -- Modern Representation And The Popular Will -- Sovereignty, God And The Historians -- Conclusion: What Is Popular Sovereignty? -- Index Edited By Robert G. Ingram And Christopher Barker. Electronic Reproduction. Baltimore, Md Available Via World Wide Web.