ABSTRACT
The Revolution, the most enormous stupidity France had committed, had changed the natural course and the normal rhythm of the life of the country. One of the basic legacies of the Revolution is the concept of the sovereignty of the people, and in France this has led to the sovereignty of the electoral assembly, as representatives of the people. The sovereignty of the people as expressed by majority rule was pernicious both because it meant that there was no thought for the general welfare and because the true "Kings of the Republic" were the Jews, Protestants, masons, and meteques. Charles Maurras argued that the founders of modern democracy, Protestants like Rousseau, Catholics like Lamennais, had thought of the sovereignty of the people as a divine right. Georges Sorel, suggesting that the fiction of the sovereignty of the people was the favorite element of democratic theory, thought that such a fiction could lead to anarchy.
