ウォクス・ポプリー・ウォクス・デイー (書籍)

ウォクス・ポプリー・ウォクス・デイー（ラテン語: Vox Populi, Vox Dei）は、1709年の急進的ホイッグ党の小冊子である。この言葉「ウォクス・ポプリー・ウォクス・デイー」自体はラテン語の成句であり、日本語では「民の声は神の声」などと訳される。

この小冊子は1710年以降に改訂され、「全王国と国家の判断」(The Judgment of whole Kingdoms and Nations)に改題されている。作者は不明だが、ロバート・ファーガソン（英語版）またはトーマス・ハリソンのいずれかと見られている^[1]^[2]。ダニエル・デフォーやジョン・サマーズが著者であるとする証拠はない。

英国の政治史において"Vox populi, vox Dei"が使用されたのは、1327年にカンタベリー大主教ウォルター・レイノルズ（英語版）が説教"Vox populi, vox Dei"で国王エドワード2世を告発してからである。1709年の小冊子におけるラテン語の使用は、この成句の初期の用法と一貫している^[3]。レイノルズ以降、英国の政治におけるこの成句の用法は好意的な物であった。しかし、739年のアルクィンの用法は、そうではなかった。アルクィンはカール大帝に対し、そのような危険な民主的な考えに抵抗するよう書簡を送っていた^[4]。

脚注

^ William Gibson Enlightenment Prelate: Benjamin Hoadly, 1676-1761 2004 p.90 "Hoadly's assize sermons had a strong influence, and provided the foundation for Whigs like Thomas Harrison, the probable author of the 1709 tract Vox Populi Vox Dei: or True Maxims of Government, which was reprinted eight times in the first .."
^ J. P. Kenyon Revolution Principles: The Politics of Party 1689-1720 1990 p.209 "The author of Vox Populi Vox Dei is unknown. Some nineteenth-century bibliographers gave the honour to Somers, others to Defoe, but neither attribution is very plausible. ...It was signed 'R. F.', and there seems no reason to challenge the accepted attribution to Robert Ferguson. But long before 1709 Ferguson had turned Jacobite, and it is unlikely that he turned back. As for Political Aphorisms, this was signed ...Thomas Harrison"
^ Philip Hamburger Law and Judicial Duty 2009 Page 74 "At the meeting of this high court early in 1327, Archbishop of Canterbury Walter Reynolds brought charges against the king, ... homage to the prince, and Archbishop Reynolds — the son of a baker — preached on the text Vox populi, vox Dei
^ David Lagomarsino, Charles T. Wood The Trial of Charles I: A Documentary History 2000 "As far back as 1327, in pronouncing the deposition of Edward II, the Archbishop of Canterbury Walter Reynolds had taken as his justifying text the old Carolingian adage Vox populi, vox Dei, “The voice of the people is the voice of God."

[1] William Gibson Enlightenment Prelate: Benjamin Hoadly, 1676-1761 2004 p.90 "Hoadly's assize sermons had a strong influence, and provided the foundation for Whigs like Thomas Harrison, the probable author of the 1709 tract Vox Populi Vox Dei: or True Maxims of Government, which was reprinted eight times in the first .."

[2] J. P. Kenyon Revolution Principles: The Politics of Party 1689-1720 1990 p.209 "The author of Vox Populi Vox Dei is unknown. Some nineteenth-century bibliographers gave the honour to Somers, others to Defoe, but neither attribution is very plausible. ...It was signed 'R. F.', and there seems no reason to challenge the accepted attribution to Robert Ferguson. But long before 1709 Ferguson had turned Jacobite, and it is unlikely that he turned back. As for Political Aphorisms, this was signed ...Thomas Harrison"

[3] Philip Hamburger Law and Judicial Duty 2009 Page 74 "At the meeting of this high court early in 1327, Archbishop of Canterbury Walter Reynolds brought charges against the king, ... homage to the prince, and Archbishop Reynolds — the son of a baker — preached on the text Vox populi, vox Dei

[4] David Lagomarsino, Charles T. Wood The Trial of Charles I: A Documentary History 2000 "As far back as 1327, in pronouncing the deposition of Edward II, the Archbishop of Canterbury Walter Reynolds had taken as his justifying text the old Carolingian adage Vox populi, vox Dei, “The voice of the people is the voice of God."

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