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Popular Sovereignty: The Elusive Norm

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Brad R. Roth*
Affiliation:
Wayne State University

Abstract

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Type
Implementing Democratization: What Role for International Organizations?
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1997

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References

1 Franck, Thomas, Democracy as a Human Right, in Human Rights: an Agenda for the Next Century 73, 75 (Henkin, Louis & Hargrove, John Lawrence eds., 1994)Google Scholar.

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5 See, e.g., Thomas Franck, Fairness in International Law and Institutions 138 (1995). “The infant [global democratic] entitlement is sufficiently widely understood to be almost universally celebrated. It is welcomed from Malagache to Mongolia, in the streets, the universities and the legislatures . . . ” It is, he writes, a “cosmic, but unmysterius change, ” in which governments “no longer blinded by the totalitarian miasma” have come to recognize the advantages of democracy. Id. at 85-86.

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