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StevenRaphanFirstEssay 3 - 25 Mar 2024 - Main.StevenRaphan
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It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind you how section and subsection titles are formatted. | | | Furthermore, the absolutist shift in France will be a marker of this new way of focusing the debate on the power of the monarch and notably on the notion of sovereignty. In this regard, an author like Jean Bodin illustrates this in Six Books of the Commonwealth. | |
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< | In this work, he endeavors to depict the characteristics of sovereignty. It is perpetual in that it does not perish with the royal figure, absolute in that the sovereign has no superior, and finally autonomous, inalienable, and indivisible. Beyond the theoretical framework of sovereignty, Bodin's innovation lies in his rejection of any notion of a mixed system blending monarchy, democracy, and oligarchy, instead advocating for a strict classification of regimes characterized by the entity holding sovereignty.
Beyond the theorization of the notion of sovereignty, Bodin appears innovative in that he rejects any conception of a mixed system that would mix elements of monarchy, democracy, and oligarchy but rather aims for a strict classification of regimes, each characterized by the organ that holds sovereignty. This marks an originality of the 16th century insofar as this idea of a mixed Constitution was often at the center of Roman thought, as expounded by Polybius or Cicero. | >
> | In this work, he endeavors to depict the characteristics of sovereignty. It is perpetual in that it does not perish with the royal figure, absolute in that the sovereign has no superior, and finally autonomous, inalienable, and indivisible. Beyond the theorization of the notion of sovereignty, Bodin appears innovative in that he rejects any conception of a mixed system that would mix elements of monarchy, democracy, and oligarchy but rather aims for a strict classification of regimes, each characterized by the organ that holds sovereignty. This represents a distinctive feature of the 16th century, as the notion of a mixed Constitution was frequently discussed in Roman thought, as expounded by Polybius or Cicero. | | |
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