Citation

Levinson S. Law Contemp. Probl. 2017; 80(2): 239-251.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Duke University, School of Law)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Sovereignty is a word that, despite all of the criticisms leveled against it by political theorists and political scientists alike, simply refuses to go away; it remains an important aspect of popular discourse and of scholarly writing, despite the skepticism about the utility of the term in the twenty-first century. What generates such skepticism in many cases is the empirical reality that one can scarcely find real-world exemplars of the classical sovereign: one who is capable of unlimited rule and is not subject even to the slightest authority of anyone else.

Not surprisingly, this notion of sovereignty is most easily associated with divine potentates...


Available: https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/lcp/vol80/iss2/11

Language: en