OR POPULAR PARTICIPATION IN LAW-MAKING FROM ANCIENT FOLK-MOOT TO MODERN A STUDY IN THE EVOLUTION OF DEMOCRACY BY CHARLES SUMNER LOBINGIER, PH.D., LL.M. JUDGE OF THE COURT OF FIRST instance, philippine ISLANDS; COMMISsioner to revise and edit LAWS; MEMBER OF THE BAR OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GEORGE ELLIOTT HOWARD PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND SOCIOLOGY New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1909 All rights reserved озоаритете Lex est quod populus jubet atque constituit. — GAIUS (ca. 150). Leges nulla alia causa nos tenent quam judicio populi receptae sunt. Tum demum humanae legis habent vim suam, sum fuerint non modo institutae approbatione communitatis. - GRATIAN (ca. 1150). "Every law which the people in person have not ratified is invalid; it is not a law."-ROUSSEAU (1762). "The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government." "The American Revolution broke out, and the doctrine of the sovereignty of the people came out of the townships and took possession of the state. . .; it became the law of laws.”— De Tocqueville (1835). |