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Le mot « peuple » sert aujourd'hui à tout mais n'est plus nulle part. Nombreux sont ceux qui s'en réclament ou bien qui prétendent le défendre contre les populismes. Incisif et décapant, ce livre change la perspective ; il montre la nécessité de réinventer des mobilisations qui se passent à présent du mot et se méfient du mythe.« Si peuple est de l'ordre de l'action et non de la réaction, de l'agir et non de l'être, s'il ne rassemble ni ne crée aucune identité prédéterminée et stable, alors peut-être n'avons-nous pas besoin du mot pour commencer à nous retrouver. Il ne sera chez nous ni le mythe puissant déjà tout armé, ni le préalable à la construction d'une entité d'opposition. Alors, si le mot est faible, mais que notre action sur le réel est forte, nous le rechargerons. Peuple est devant nous, mais il a déjà commencé. »

People (Constitutional law)

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Popular sovereignty - the doctrine that the public powers of state originate in a concessive grant of power from 'the people' - is perhaps the cardinal doctrine of modern constitutional theory, placing full constitutional authority in the people at large, rather than in the hands of judges, kings, or a political elite. Although its classic formulation is to be found in the major theoretical treatments of the modern state, such as in the treatises of Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau, this book explores the intellectual origins of this doctrine and investigates its chief source in late medieval and early modern thought. Long regarded the principal source for modern legal reasoning, Roman law had a profound impact on the major architects of popular sovereignty such as François Hotman, Jean Bodin, and Hugo Grotius. Adopting the juridical language of obligations, property, and personality as well as the model of the Roman constitution, these jurists crafted a uniform theory that located the right of sovereignty in the people at large as the legal owners of state authority. In recovering the origins of popular sovereignty, the book demonstrates the importance of the Roman law as a chief source of modern constitutional thought.

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Elections. --- Democracy. --- People (Constitutional law)

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People (Constitutional law) --- South America --- History.

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Nation-state --- People (Constitutional law) --- Political science