The PeopleISBN: 978-0-7456-2822-6
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176 pages
September 2005, Polity
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1. Introduction.
Identifying the People.
The Sovereign People in Action and in Myth.
2. 'The People' and its Past.
Prelude in Rome: The People in Action.
The People in Reserve: From Shadow to Substance.
Civil War to American Revolution: the English People in Rebellion.
We the People: The American Revolution and its Significance.
Popular Sovereignty and Parliamentary Reform in Nineteenth-Century Britain.
Popular Government and the People.
3. Ourselves and Others: People, Nation and Humanity.
People and Nation.
People-building.
Peoples and People.
4. Part and Whole: People, Populism and Democracy.
The Common People.
Populism in Contemporary Liberal Democracies.
Identifying Populism.
Populism, Democracy and the People.
5. We the Sovereign People.
Can Popular Sovereignty be Understood?.
Can Popular Sovereignty be Exercised?.
6. Myths of the Sovereign People.
Myths of the People.
the People as a Fiction.
The People as Myth and Political Reality.
7. Conclusion.
Notes.
References.
Index.
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