Introduction Richard Bourke;
1. Athenian democracy and popular tyranny Kinch Hoekstra;
2. Popular sovereignty as control of officeholders: Aristotle on Greek democracy Melissa Lane;
3. Popular sovereignty in the late Roman republic: Cicero and the will of the people Valentina Arena;
4. Popolo and law: late medieval sovereignty in Marsilius and the jurists Serena Ferente;
5. Democratic sovereignty and democratic government: the sleeping sovereign Richard Tuck;
6. Parliamentary sovereignty, popular sovereignty, and Henry Parker's adjudicative standpoint Alan Cromartie;
7. Popular sovereignty and representation in the English Civil War Lorenzo Sabbadini;
8. Prerogative, popular sovereignty, and the American founding Eric Nelson;
9. Popular sovereignty and political representation: Edmund Burke in the context of eighteenth-century thought Richard Bourke;
10. From popular sovereignty to civil society in post-revolutionary France Bryan Garsten;
11. Popular sovereignty as state theory in the nineteenth century Duncan Kelly;
12. Popular sovereignty and anticolonialism Karuna Mantena;
13. Popular sovereignty in an age of mass democracy: politics, parliament, and parties in Weber, Kelsen, Schmitt and beyond Timothy Stanton;
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