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Start by pressing the button below! Author: C. Neal Tate. He has published widely on comparative judicial politics and international human rights. No part of this work covered by the copyright hereon may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means—graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, Web distribution, or information storage retrieval systems—without the written permission of the publisher.
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Neal Tate, editor-in-chief. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN set hardcover: alk. Comparative government—Encyclopedias. Tate, C. Neal Chester Neal , JA G The idea of popular sovereignty took root in the West with the onrush of modernism.
This was especially evident in the sphere of governance and politics. By the end of the sixteenth century, new states, mostly in Europe, were being carved out of old empires—a process that spread across the world and continued to almost the end of the twentieth century. Early on, a distinctive vocabulary was devised to explain and legitimize this historic development, beginning, in , with the French thinker Jean Bodin — introducing the legal concept of state sovereignty.
