LAWS 2501 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Tyrant, Federalist No. 10, Direct Democracy

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Law
• Course: LAWS 2501
• Professor: Zoran Oklopcic

Document Summary

Concepts and ways of thinking of the constitution of political communities not in a make belief world (in the state of war, or the state of nature, or something abstract), but in reality. Political communities where people have exercised its right to rebel: the social context for constituent power can not be overthought. What is presupposed: a political community already exists, a wider political unit (in the case of seyes, it was france) The question we start from, therefore (of supreme practical importance): (cid:858)ho(cid:449) do (cid:455)ou o(cid:396)ga(cid:374)ize a politi(cid:272)al (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)it(cid:455)? (cid:859) I(cid:374) ousseau(cid:859)s mi(cid:374)d: we create a sovereign people, and after joining into unity, it governs itself automatically though a method of self government, where everyone voices their concerns, etc. The assumption/problem however: the idea of a place is small (these communities can practice democratic self-governance logically only in small communities the logical pre-(cid:272)o(cid:374)ditio(cid:374)s (cid:449)ould(cid:374)(cid:859)t allow for this to be implemented in larger communities)