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Is Sovereignty a Legal Term or Political Philosophical Concept?

April 26, 2017concept Legal philosophical Political sovereignty term

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Is Sovereignty a Legal Term or Political Philosophical Concept?

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Sovereignty is, first and foremost, a legal term, and it has often been held that its use in political philosophy merely leads to confusion. In jurisprudence, we are told, it has the perfectly plain meaning given to it in Austin’s famous definition.