Rousseau and the American Founding: The People’s Two Bodies from Practice, to Theory, and Back to Practice

• In Event: Power and Popular Sovereignty in Rousseau

Brief Overview

we argue that almost a century before Rousseau was even born, the American Puritans have managed to actually create a people based upon his famous distinction between the General Will and the will of all

Authors

• Haimo Li, University of Houston

• Alin Fumurescu, University of Houston