The Importance of a Popular Sovereign

In the broader Italian Atlantic traditions as I called it, monarchy was associated with the end of the mixed constitution. It represented for them an absolute monarchy whereby one man, his will or her will in the case of a queen could be imposed at will on the people and that would be the worst possible form of domination. So republicanism had always been articulated as the very opposite of that sort of absolute monarchy. Now Russo is influenced by them in the sense of believing in a single concrete sovereign but E.O.P.S.F.R. of course the committee of the whole which is the committee ofThe people.