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Sovereignty

In Our Time: Philosophy

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The Relationship Between Representative Government and Democratic Sovereignty

The relationship between representative government and democratic sovereignty really is at the heart of then the political struggles in the wake of the American and French revolutions going forward. How is it that the people can in some sense lend their sovereignty and have it be exercised in a meaningful way by a form of representative government, yet also retain it? The underlying sovereignty now it's accepted has to be really democratic sovereignty.

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