POVO E GOVERNO: SOBRE A QUESTÃO DA PARTICIPAÇÃO POPULAR EM MAQUIAVEL
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https://doi.org/10.5216/phi.v24i1.53412Abstract
Machiavelli's interpretive tradition recognizes the centrality of the people as a political actor. However, on the function it performs there is a wide spectrum of interpretations. At one extreme are those who conceive it as a passive entity, without autonomous political initiative. In the other, those that give it an active role in the government of the city. Although Machiavelli himself speaks of the people as animated by a "negative desire", this does not result in a popular passivity. In this work we will show that the people are autonomous active political actor who acts in the public scene in two main ways. An extra-institutional form exercised by the conflicts through which people struggle for laws. It is an intra-institutional form exercised through the legal and institutional structures with which the people act with the laws.
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