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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"popular sovereignty"”.
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Popular sovereignty without populism: autonomy, democracy, and citizen endorsement
This thesis consists of a social criticism of contemporary populism, alongside an investigation into how we should understand democracy’s fundamental value. It examines the concerns that drive contemporary populist movements and then considers three implicit understandings of democracy’s value that …
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The origin and history of the doctrine of popular sovereignty
In this study of the Doctrine of Popular Sovereignty the principal attention has been devoted to its origin and its growth as a political policy until Stephen A. Douglas became its champion and secured its adoption by Congress as the "principle" of the Kansas-Nebraska bill. To this portion of the …
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Popular sovereignty, slavery in the territories, and the South, 1785-1860
The doctrine of popular sovereignty emerged as a potential solution to the crisis over slavery in the territories because it removed the issue from the halls of Congress. Most historians have focused on its development and implementation beginning in the late 1840s and culminating with passage of …
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DEMOCRACY AS A BATTLEFIELD. CONTEMPORARY GRASSROOT MASS MOBILISATIONS IN WESTERN EUROPE, "POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY" AND THE REFRAMING OF "DEMOCRACY"
… between political legitimacy, ‘the Law’ and ‘popular sovereignty’, and the ways in which contemporary ‘democracy’ can be (re)framed within that scope, in the contention between a ‘legalist-constitutionalist’ and a ‘radical-popular’ understanding of it. The first part of the dissertation …
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A more perfect union : Joseph Story's synthesis of natural rights philosophy and the common law.
… Story articulated a national conception of popular sovereignty that contextualized the American notion of consent through a synthesis of natural rights philosophy and the common law. Against arguments that suggested the incompatibility of natural rights philosophy and the common law, …
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Targeted Sanctions and Sovereignty in Zimbabwe
… Marketplace Framework (PMF), and the Normative Popular Sovereignty (NPS) framework, this thesis advances three key arguments. From a political sociological perspective, I contend that the imposition of targeted sanctions is rooted in a misinterpretation of political dynamics. This misconception …
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Public Opinion in Benjamin Constant's Political Thought
… Rather than relying on the concept of popular sovereignty, as has been assumed, Constant described governments as being underpinned by the people’s opinion. When Constant talked about popular sovereignty, it was not to endorse it, but to urge that it should be disposed of in light of …
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Final Judicial Authority in the European Union: A Normative Framework
… the apex courts and the CJEU. These include popular sovereignty and some combination of Member State consent, effectiveness, and the desirability of European integration and of extending democracy beyond state borders, respectively. The second part of the thesis provides a framework for …
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The European Revolutions of 1848 and the Danubian Principality of Wallachia
… national and European identity, personal and popular sovereignty, and the relationship between central and local interests in mid- nineteenth-century Europe. It argues that liberal intellectuals in the two Danubian Principalities thought about their national pasts and futures in European terms …
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Civil Unrest in the Untied State of America: Facing the Threat
… themes are police violence, state repression, popular sovereignty and political resistance. It is the intention of this piece of writing that it be used for practical purposes, to serve as a foundation on which the public can more easily critique the American political system. We must …
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Authorizing revolutionary constitutional change : constituent power, legitimacy, and the revolutionary constitutional amendment
… amendments restructure the delegation of sovereignty in the state, socio-normative amendments shift the constitution’s core values and redefine the demos. Drawing on civic republican theory, I then argue that the process of enacting revolutionary amendments must approximate the primary …
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A "Living Political Dialect": The Science of Language and the Victorian Epic Impulse
… status of hereditary rule and the rise of popular sovereignty. Philologists and natural scientists presented a new understanding of language as a self-enclosed, evolutionary system. This autonomy of language, in turn, mirrored Victorian Britain's emerging liberal society, with its emphasis …
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Referendum on the Revolution: The Pennsylvania Constitutional Debate, 1776-1784
… into question the implications of the concept of popular sovereignty for governmental structure and popular political agency. Competing notions regarding these issues, while expressed within a general framework of consensus concerning the source of political authority [the people], revealed …
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Message From The Grassroots: Exploring Black liberation in grassroots economic practice and planning in the Americas
… and efforts that serve human life and dignity, popular sovereignty, connection to the Earth, and self-determinative capacities of African peoples throughout the Americas. Intent on contributing toward an anti-colonial praxis in this field, the following study is in part an application of the …
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Philanthropic Colonialism: New England Philanthropy in Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1860
… of slavery in the territory up to a vote of popular sovereignty. Upon the passage of the bill, New England’s most elite class of citizens, led by Eli Thayer, mobilized their networks of philanthropy in New England to ensure the Kansas-Nebraska territory did not embrace slavery. The effort by …
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Under what circumstances can a democratic country take steps to legally dissolve a political party?
… of four principles. These are Representation, Popular Sovereignty, Equal Respect and Changeability. The Thesis will argue that a satisfactory balance between these principles requires the facilitation of substantive disagreement as long as such disagreement does not both ideologically and …
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A Peculiar Place for the Peculiar Institution: Slavery and Sovereignty in Early Territorial Utah
… it, provide a compelling case study of popular sovereignty in action in the antebellum West.
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An examination of the relationship between public participation in constitution making processes and the objective to write a democratic constitution : the case of Zimbabwe's 2010-13 constitution making exercise
… theoretical foundations include the doctrine of popular sovereignty and the doctrine of nation building and national reconciliation.
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"""By the people"": representative literature and democratic representation in the United States, 1890-1930"
… and answers these questions about the authors of popular government and the means to represent them. I include three case studies from 1890-1930 focused on the work of Hamlin Garland, Vachel Lindsay, and James Weldon Johnson. Each of these writers created specifically literary projects designed to …
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