In the meantime in political theory, at least, many of them were the agreements of Athenian citizens as to how they should conduct themselves in the inevitable clashes of interests in everyday life.
When and where the growing point of law has been in legislation, a political theory of law as the command of the sovereign has prevailed.
Also it could be made to fit a political theory of popular sovereignty in which the people were thought of as succeeding to the sovereignty of parliament at the American Revolution or of the French king at the French Revolution.
In the determination of sequence it is customary to have an introductory course, such as American government, European government, or political theory, and to make this subject a prerequisite for all advanced courses.
There are two great fountains of political theory in our country according to the author: Rousseau is one, and Bentham is the other.
For another reason, also, the attempt to base a political theory upon a philosophical doctrine is undesirable.
The classification of the passions which is most convenient in political theory is somewhat different from that which would be adopted in psychology.
It matters, however, comparatively little, for the appreciation of Rousseau's political theory in general, that he failed to become the theorist of the modern State.
Round this point centres the whole dispute about the methods proper to political theory.
Kant takes Rousseau's political theory, and applies it to ethics as a whole.
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