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6 - Reason, Will, and Popular Sovereignty
Kody W. Cooper, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, Justin Buckley Dyer, University of Texas, Austin
Book:

The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics

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22 December 2022

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15 December 2022, pp 156-188
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Why should the Constitution be considered authoritative and demand our loyalty?The answer to this question is tightly bound up with how we think about popular sovereignty. Crucially, the American colonists reaffirmed the rule of law over the rule of will, whether as it had been theorized both by partisans of absolutist monarchy (e.g., Filmer) or partisans of absolutist democracy (e.g., Rousseau). To understand the Founders’ perspective on popular sovereignty under the rule of law, we contrast it with Rousseau's voluntarist and positivist account and engage with recent scholarship in consitutional theory on popular sovereignty.The chapter then reconstructs the founders' account of sovereignty taking inspiration from Orestes Brownson.