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Article: Taming the Assembly: national representation in Serbia (1815-1859) (1).
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- East European Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 22, 2003
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The element of differentiation of the modern nation-state from its predecessors is the legitimization of power in terms of the people's will. Although not necessarily democratic, the government of the national state is supposed to be invested to a certain extent with this will. Therefore, the support of the government by a representative body (parliament, assembly or other) becomes a desirable ratification of the legitimacy of the State as a whole. The analysis of the relationship between the executive and the representative body could thus offer an insight into the basic sources of legitimacy on which a determined State rests.
Serbian historiography, whether ...