Meaning the Voice of the people is the voice of god.

And here are the questions I have to answer:
What is the meaning of the above expression? What is its source; how was the principle applied?

and

Analyze and comment upon that principle as a basic for policy determination. Take into account that there may be events and assigned readings that will influence your comments.


Can you tell my English professor went to Harvard .

Help guys, I'm lost.

anyone :(

Dont know the origin but I would guess its a statement based upon god being a creation of man rather then an entity per se, that god is used as a tool to control a populus and that the word of god is actually the word of a powerful man rather then a supernatural being.

http://www.sacklunch.net/Latin/V/voxpopulivoxDei.html might help with the origin maybe?

Google is your friend.

Well, here's a bit of what I could find...

The meaning of the expression:
We would not listen to those who were wont to say the voice of the people is the voice of God, for the voice of the mob is near akin to madness.

[Lat., Nec audiendi sunt qui solent dicere vox populi, vox dei; cum tumultus vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.]

Author:
Alcuin of York (Albinus) 732 AD - 804 AD
Anglo-Saxon mathematician & scholar; teacher of Charlemagne
Source:
Epistle to Charlemagne (vol. I, p. 191), (Froben's ed. 1771), also credited to Eadmer


Apparently used to in a letter by Alcuin to the Frankish emperor Charlemagne in which he is advised not to listen to those who say, "'The voice of the people is the voice of God', for the turbulence of the mob is always close to insanity." or another way of saying it: How can the voice of the people be that of God, he asked, when "the masses of the people are always close to insanity."

Basically a pursuasive public relations quote by Alcuin to Charlemagne.