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CEPPA Works-in-Progress Talk – James Harris (St Andrews)

March 18, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Title: “Some people and the people”

Abstract: When is an action, or a choice, or a desire, an action or choice or desire of the people, as opposed to being an action, or choice, or desire of some people? In this talk I consider eight possible answers to this question. I focus in particular on the idea that the will of the people is the will of the majority, and on the idea the will of the people is the will of representative institutions of government. My goal is to motivate the idea that it is never appropriate to describe a preference or policy as the will of the, as opposed to some, people.

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