Sovereignty — Flashcards

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Sovereignty is the supreme power of the state. It means the state has the highest authority to make and enforce laws within its area.

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Because it is the main feature that distinguishes the state from other associations such as a family, school, or society. Without sovereignty, the state cannot be supreme.

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Bodin is known as the father or inventor of sovereignty. He used the term sovereignete in Six Books on the Republic and defined sovereignty as the supreme power of the state over citizens and subjects…

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Bodin placed the king's sovereignty under three laws: the law of God, the law of nature, and the law of nations. He also said the king's power stopped at the door of the household.

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Hobbes made the king supreme law-maker, supreme administrator, and supreme adjudicator. He gave sovereignty a clearer and more complete form.

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Austin made Hobbes's ideas more precise in legal terms. He defined the sovereign as a determinate human superior who is not habitually obedient to another superior and receives habitual obedience from…

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Legal sovereignty is the highest power to make and enforce law, and it is a patent, easily intelligible fact. Political sovereignty refers to the power of the electorate, but it is a fiction and a mat…

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Locke advocated political sovereignty. He vested sovereignty in the community and its exercise in the king or government, making the government accountable to the community.