“Pretenders of a vile and unmanly disposition”: Thomas Hobbes on the fiction of constituent power
(2018)
Journal Article
Lindsay, A. (2018). “Pretenders of a vile and unmanly disposition”: Thomas Hobbes on the fiction of constituent power. Political Theory, 47(4), 475-499. https://doi.org/10.1177/0090591718805979
The prevailing interpretation of constituent power is taken to be the extra-institutional capacity of a group, typically ‘the people’, to establish or revise the basic constitutional conditions of a state. Among many contemporary democratic theorists... Read More about “Pretenders of a vile and unmanly disposition”: Thomas Hobbes on the fiction of constituent power.