The Sleeping Sovereign by Richard Tuck

Hardback. New. An exploration of the important distinction in political theory between a 'sovereign' and a 'government' state, from its first appearance in Bodin's writings in the late sixteenth century, through its seventeenth-century treatment by Grotius, Hobbes and Pufendorf, to the eighteenth-century response, and the presentation of 'government' in the American Constitution.

Cambridge Univ Pr, 2016. Hardcover. New. 295 pages. 9.00x5.75x1.00 inches.

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