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2022 | 5(69) | 191-201

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Suwerenność ludu w myśli politycznej lewellerów

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Popular Sovereignty in the Political Thought of the Levellers

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Prawo natury, uprawnienia naturalne i teoria zgody tworzyły język suwerenności ludu, do którego odwoływali się obrońcy Parlamentu, wśród nich także lewellerzy, podczas angielskiej wojny domowej w pierwszej poł. XVII w. Celem artykułu jest pokazanie, w czym lewellerzy odróżniali się, jeśli chodzi o ideę suwerenności ludu, od teoretyków obrońców Parlamentu? Różnice te dotyczyły przede wszystkim rozumienia pojęcia ludu oraz uprawnień naturalnych, co miało związek z celami politycznymi lewellerów. W ostrym sporze politycznym, jakim był konflikt pomiędzy królem a Parlamentem, zwolennicy tego ostatniego odwoływali się do idei suwerenności ludu, by uzasadnić racje Parlamentu, lewellerzy natomiast czynili to, by obronić lud przed Parlamentem. W tym celu stworzyli indywidualistyczno-kontraktualistyczną koncepcję suwerenności ludu. Artykuł przybliża tę koncepcję.
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Natural law, natural rights, and consent theory formed the language of popular sovereignty, to which appealed Parliament’s defenders and the Levellers during the English Civil War in the first half of the 17th century. The aim of the article is to reveal how the Levellers differed from the Parliament’s theorists in terms of the idea of popular sovereignty. These differences concerned primarily the understanding of the people and natural rights concepts, which was related to the political goals of the Levellers. In the political dispute that was the conflict between the king and Parliament, supporters of the latter appealed to the idea of popular sovereignty to justify Parliament’s activities, while the Levellers did so to defend the people from Parliament. To this end, they created an individualistic and contractualistic concept of popular sovereignty. The article presents this concept.

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191-201

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2022

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Biblioteka Nauki
2129859

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