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| Titel: |
Rousseau's Rome and the Repudiation of Populist Republicanism |
| Auteur: |
McCormick, John P. |
| Verschenen in: |
Critical review of international social and political philosophy |
| Paginering: | Jaargang 10 (2007) nr. 1 pagina's 3-27 |
| Jaar: |
2007-03 |
| Inhoud: |
The chapters of Rousseau's Social Contract devoted to republican Rome prescribe institutions that obstruct popular efforts at diminishing the excessive power and influence of wealthy citizens and political magistrates. I argue that Rousseau reconstructs ancient Rome's constitution in direct opposition to the more populist and anti-elitist model of the Roman Republic championed by Machiavelli in the Discourses: Rousseau eschews the establishment of magistracies, like the tribunes, reserved for common citizens exclusively, and endorses assemblies where the wealthy are empowered to outvote the poor in lawmaking and elections. On the basis of sociologically anonymous principles like generality and popular sovereignty, and by confining elite accountability to general elections, Rousseau's neo-Roman institutional proposals aim to pacify the contestation of class hierarchies and inflate elite prerogative within republics - under the cover of more formal, seemingly more genuine, equality. |
| Uitgever: |
Routledge |
| Bronbestand: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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