The fundamentals of a people's government

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Gerardo Martínez-Solanas

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Humanity's three most momentous revolutions are the product of the contemporary era. The American Revolution of 1776, the French Revolution of 1789 and the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, respond to the historical evolution of political thought that concludes that all citizens are sovereign in their own right and inalienable. It raises, for the first time since classical Greece, the thesis that peoples in their sovereign character have the capacity to govern themselves. Only for the Greeks, citizen status was extremely exclusive. Not like that in our time. However, the mechanism for this government of the people, called Greek-style democracy, has led through these revolutionary synthesises into remarkably divergent positions not only on how to implement it but also on the fundamentals and principles of the democratic idea.

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Martínez-SolanasG. (2020). The fundamentals of a people’s government. Acta Académica, 26(Mayo), 83-88. Retrieved from http://encuestas.uaca.ac.cr/index.php/actas/article/view/803
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Foro Latinoamericano