Violence and legitimacy: European monarchy in the age of revolutions
Benjamin Constant distinguished two kinds of government: unlawful government based on violence, and legitimate government based on the general will. In Europe monarchy was for over a thousand years considered the natural form of legitimate government. The sources of its legitimacy were the dynastic...
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Berlin
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
[2018]
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| Series: | De Gruyter eBook-Paket Geschichte
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| DOI: | 10.1515/9783110561395 |
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| Author Notes: | Volker Sellin |
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Violence and legitimacy: European monarchy in the age of revolutions
De Gruyter Oldenbourg [2018]
Book/Monograph