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    Violence and Legitimacy: European Monarchy in the Age of Revolutions

     
    Violence and Legitimacy: European Monarchy in the Age of Revolutions

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    Benjamin Constant distinguished two kinds of government: unlawful government based on violence, and legitimate government based on the general will. In Europe monarchy was for over a thousand years considered the natural form of legitimate government. The sources of its legitimacy were the dynastic principle, religion, and the ability to protect against foreign aggression. At the end of the eighteenth century the revolutions in America and France called into question the traditional legitimacy of monarchy, but Volker Sellin shows that in response to this challenge monarchy opened up new sources of legitimacy by concluding alliances with constitutionalism, nationalism, and social reform. In some cases the age of revolution brought on a new type of leader, basing his claim to power on charisma.

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    EAN/ISBN:
    9783110558395
    Medium:
    Bound edition
    Number of pages:
    346
    Publication date:
    2017-12-18
    Publisher:
    De Gruyter Oldenbourg
    EAN/ISBN:
    9783110558395
    Medium:
    Bound edition
    Number of pages:
    346
    Publication date:
    2017-12-18
    Publisher:
    De Gruyter Oldenbourg

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