The Sleeping Sovereign: The Invention of Modern Democracy by Richard Tuck

The Sleeping Sovereign: The Invention of Modern Democracy

Seeley Lectures

Richard Tuck

310 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy politics challenging informative medium-paced
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Richard Tuck traces the history of the distinction between sovereignty and government and its relevance to the development of democratic thought. Tuck shows that this was a central issue in the political debates of the seventeenth and eighteenth c...

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