As the expanding United States grappled with the question of how to determine the boundaries of slavery, politicians proposed popular sovereignty as a means of

Sovereignty, originally the figure of 'sovereign', then the state, today meets new challenges of globalization and privatization of power.

A path-breaking critical analysis of the meaning and interpretation of the German constitution in the Weimar years (1919-1933).

Analyzing the "democratic" features and institutions of the Athenian democracy in the fifth century B.C., Martin Ostwald traces their development from Solon's j