Popular Sovereignty and Legality

Britain at the Constitutional Crossroads – Court, Parliament, and Popular Sovereignty in the Twenty- First Century

Book Review: Legality

978 - 1 - 107 - 13040 - 1 - Popular Sovereignty in Historical Perspective Edited by Richard Bourke and Quentin Skinner

Popular sovereignty is a key component of modern political thinking, yet a history of the concept has not previously been attempted. This volume does not pretend to offer a comprehensive treatment. It arises from a collaborative project involving scholars specialising across a range of periods – spanning ancient, medieval, early modern and modern political thought. What has emerged is not a con...

Food Security and Food Sovereignty

This discussion paper explores conceptualisations of food security produced by the World Trade Organisation and the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations and examines a responsive policy framework food sovereignty – championed by the farming and peasant movement Via Campesina. Conflict over the use and appropriation of plant genetic resources is examined to highlight tensions...

Sovereignty , Autonomy and Conditional Spending

One of the most conspicuous features of the Rehnquist era has been the revival of the concept of enumerated powers as an important theme in constitutional jurisprudence. In the period from 1937 through 1995, the Court routinely concluded that the Commerce Clause granted the federal government power to regulate private activities which were traditionally relegated to local control. However, in U...