1. THE ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETIES: THREE APPROACHES
This is surely one of the most important questions to ponder in macro-political theory. ... Yet even within the most popular views of civil society, there are differences aplenty. ... Among them, we shall narrow our focus to the popular views of Locke, Tocqueville, and Marx. ... According to Locke, God patiently succumbed to a different structure than what most people may have imagined. ... At the root of all definitions lies the notion of popular power, of a situation in which power, and maybe even authority, rests with the common people. ...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate