Law, Sovereignty, State

Bodin e Althusius in perspective

Authors

  • Marta Nunes da Costa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-9020.intelligere.2019.166743

Keywords:

Law, Sovereignty, Althusius, Bodin, Rebellion, State

Abstract

Jean Bodin is the first author to offer a theory of the State – in his work published in 1576, entitled The Six Books of the Republic, the author introduces a series of concepts that will define the horizon of the specifically modern European collective imagination, namely, with the introduction of his theory of sovereignty. If Bodin’s proposal gained adherents (among them Thomas Hobbes), laying the path for what would become the absolutist monarchical tradition in Europe, in that same period we find a radically distinct proposal. In Johannes Althusius’ Politica, published in 1603, we find a conceptualization of sovereignty that is rooted in a symbiotic right, precursor of a democratic and federalist tradition. The aim of this paper is to offer a reconstruction of the relations between law, right, sovereignty and state in Bodin and Althusius and to identify the ways in which the authors treat the possibility of rebellion.

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2019-12-30

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