--Janet Ajzenstat, The Canadian Founding: John Locke and Parliament (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007), 26.
Friday, July 20, 2018
Popular Sovereignty and the House of Commons
According to Edmund Morgan, the English House of Commons "invented" popular sovereignty to challenge the legitimacy of the doctrine of the divine right of kings and in this way to justify the sovereignty of Parliament. "The English House of Commons ... invented a sovereign people to overcome a sovereign king."
--Janet Ajzenstat, The Canadian Founding: John Locke and Parliament (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007), 26.
--Janet Ajzenstat, The Canadian Founding: John Locke and Parliament (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007), 26.
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