This volume contains the essential points of Jean Bodin's theory of sovereignty, a landmark in legal theory and royalist ideology. The four chapters presented form the core of Bodin's classic work, Six Livres de la Republique. Bodin was primarily responsible for introducing the seductive but erroneous notion that sovereignty is indivisible, that the entire power of the state had to be vested in a single individual or group. This thesis, combined with the prevailing crisis of authority during the French religious wars, led Bodin to a systematically absolutist interpretation of the French and other European monarchies. This is the first complete translation of this material into English since 1606, and is accompanied by a lucid introduction, chronology, and bibliography.
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'Professor Julian Franklin's edition of 'Bodin: On Sovereignty' consists of four chapters from Les Six Livres de la République, incontestably one of the seminal texts in modern political thought.' French History
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A well-documented scholarly translation from the original French of Jean Bodin's masterpiece of political theory. Though of immense influence in its day, divine right sovereignty has certainly gone out of fashion (thank goodness!) unless perhaps you are living in Saudi Arabia or Lesoto. Nonetheless, for college students and the curious this is as nice a translation and abridgement as one is likely to find.
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Sovereignty is the absolute and perpetual power of a commonwealth, which the Latins call maiestas; the Greeks akra exousia, kurion arche, and kurion politeuma; and the Italians segnioria, a word they use for private persons as well as for those who have full control of the state, while the Hebrews call it tomech shevet - that is, the highest power of command. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sovereign prince, comitia centuriata, absolutist theory Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
King Charles, King Louis, King Philip, Parlement of Paris, King Francis, King Henry, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Senate, German Empire, Imperial Chamber, Titus Livy, Estates of Aragon, Estates of England, Fabius Maximus New!
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Sovereignty is the absolute and perpetual power of a commonwealth, which the Latins call maiestas; the Greeks akra exousia, kurion arche, and kurion politeuma; and the Italians segnioria, a word they use for private persons as well as for those who have full control of the state, while the Hebrews call it tomech shevet - that is, the highest power of command. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sovereign prince, comitia centuriata, absolutist theory Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
King Charles, King Louis, King Philip, Parlement of Paris, King Francis, King Henry, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Senate, German Empire, Imperial Chamber, Titus Livy, Estates of Aragon, Estates of England, Fabius Maximus New!
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- Political Writings by Jean-Francois Lyotard in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Two Treatises of Government by John Locke in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Jean Bodin (International Library of Essays in the History of Social and Political Thought) by Julian H. Franklin in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- King John by John Charles on page 7, and page 75
- The Six Bookes of a Commonweale (European political thought) by Kenneth D. McRae in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
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- Citizenship Education And The Modern State by Kerry Kennedy in Back Matter
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