Sovereignty: Speech and Reality

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Sovereignty is, in its most elementary sense, the supreme power that does not recognize another superior to itself. Its classical formulation is attributed to Jean Bodin, who in the sixteenth century defined it as the absolute and perpetual power of a republic, that is, the ultimate and indivisible authority to dictate the law without being subject to it. Thomas Hobbes subsequently linked it to the need for a centralized power capable of guarant…