DIVISION OF POWERS AND REPRESENTATION IN ROUSSEAU
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https://doi.org/10.18012/arf.v8i3.59790Keywords:
Rousseau, Separation of Powers, RepresentationAbstract
It is intended to show that Rousseau's fundamental political ideas seem to suggest a democratic populism, as citizens must form a general will and directly exercise popular, inalienable and indivisible sovereignty, through legislative power, which makes laws as general acts, which they must be carried out, as private acts, by the prince in the exercise of executive power, which would make the division of powers and representation impossible. However, using as an method the analysis of the works of Rousseau and the commentators cited in the references, it is observed that, as he deduces the consequences of these fundamental ideas and ponders them for a naturalistic realism, the republican political institutions arise, which reveal the limits of popular sovereignty and the need for a concept of division of powers and representation. In this sense, it is concluded that the prince not only can but must represent the sovereign both in the exercise of executive power and in the sovereign's own tasks, in legislation.
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