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With the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the emergence of democracies or quasi-democracies in Russia, South Africa, and throughout South America, the most powerful and persistent opponents of popular sovereignty have receded, or admitted their mistakes, and a sort of democratic triumphalism has entered the legal literature. Where Hugo Grotius once boldly rejected the idea that supreme power necessarily resides in the people, frankly viewing certain peoples (he mentioned Cappadocians) as fit to be slaves,1 some scholars now assert an “emerging right of democratic governance” such that no government should be considered legitimate without free, fair and frequent elections.2
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See M.N.S. Sellers, “Republican Impartiality,” in 11 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 273 (1991); Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government. Oxford University Press. Oxford, 1997.
See M.N.S. Sellers, The Sacred Fire of Liberty: Republicanism, Liberalism and the Law. Palgrave Macmillan. Basingstoke, England, 1998;
J.G.A. Pocock, The Machiavellian Movement: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition. Princeton University Press. Princeton, 1975.
Example, “Publius” [Alexander Hamilton] Federalist IX (1787) in Isaac Kramnick (ed.), The Federalist Papers, 1987, p. 119;
See M.N.S. Sellers American Republicanism: Roman Ideology in the United States Constitution. Macmillan. Basingstoke, 1994.
Alexis de Tocqueville, De la democratie en Amerique, 1835, ch. IV: “Du principe de la souveraineté du peuple en Amerique.”
See Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government. Oxford University Press. New York, 1997. chaps 6 and 7.
For the structures of republican government see Philip Petit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government. Oxford University Press. New York, 1997;
M.N.S. Sellers, Republican Legal Theory. Palgrave Macmillan. Basingstoke, England, 2003.
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Sellers, M.N.S. (2006). Borders and Democracy in International Law. In: Republican Principles in International Law. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230505292_18
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