“The Elusive Sovereign” - Philip Pettit gives the annual Wright Lecture
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ม.ค. 2025
- On the 50th anniversary of the annual Cecil A. Wright Memorial Lecture, Prof. Philip Pettit of Princeton delivered the 2019-20 lecture on the topic of “The Elusive Sovereign” on October 10, 2019.
Does a conception of the law like H.L.A.Hart’s allow us to postulate a sovereign in the legal regime? Is it consistent with thinking that there is one supreme authority over the law? Or does his decentered model of the polity make no room for the idea of sovereignty? Does that model rule out the possibility of a legal sovereign in the way in which the early theorists of sovereignty such as Bodin and Hobbes thought that the mixed-constitutional model of the state ruled it out? Surprisingly, it turns out that despite the arguments of those theorists, and despite Hart’s own misgivings, the idea of sovereignty can find a natural home within a mixed or decentered set of legal arrangements.