SOVEREIGNTY

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SOVEREIGNTY

• The principle of absolute and unlimited power
• Legal Sovereignty supreme legal authority that
  is, an unchallengeable right to demand
  compliance, as defined by law.
• Political Sovereignty unlimited political power

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Sovereignty

• External sovereignty states place in the
  international order and its capacity to act as an
  independent and autonomous entity (national
  sovereignty, or sovereign state)
• Internal Sovereignty the notion of a supreme
  power /authority within the state, located in the
  body that makes decisions that are binding on all
  citizens, groups and institutions within the
  states territorial boundries.

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Sovereignty..

• Hobbes Sovereignty as a justification for
  monarchical absolutism.
• Bodin Sovereign monarch was constrained by the
  will of God.
• Rousseau Popular sovereignty expressed in the
  idea of general will
• All thinkers believed that sovereignty should be
  located in a determinated body