Originally published in 1969.
For many centuries the butt of jokes and the substance of comic relief in seriou. ] Nor are those to be listened to who are accustomed to say, \'The voice of the people is the voice of God.\' Tracing the changing meaning of the saying through European history, George Boas finds that the people are not an easily identifiable group. 798), who wrote that the people ] are to be led, not followed.
The proverb vox populi, vox Dei first appeared in a work by Alcuin (ca.
Originally published in 1969