POLS 1303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Imagined Communities

• School: Acadia University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 1303
• Professor: Andrew Biro

Document Summary

Pols 1303 lecture notes nov. 17th 2017. States, collective identities: changes are always happening in those processes. Always talking about things that are in formation. Tate: (cid:862)a(cid:374) i(cid:374)stitutio(cid:374) (cid:449)ith a (cid:373)o(cid:374)opol(cid:455) o(cid:374) the legiti(cid:373)ate use of fo(cid:396)(cid:272)e (cid:449)ithi(cid:374) a gi(cid:448)e(cid:374) te(cid:396)(cid:396)ito(cid:396)(cid:455)(cid:863) (cid:894)ma(cid:454) we(cid:271)e(cid:396)(cid:895). The o(cid:374)l(cid:455) thi(cid:374)g that is legiti(cid:373)atel(cid:455) allo(cid:449)ed to use (cid:448)iole(cid:374)(cid:272)e/fo(cid:396)(cid:272)e. The person whose word has the force of law. (cid:862) o(cid:448)e(cid:396)eig(cid:374) is he (cid:449)ho de(cid:272)ides the e(cid:454)(cid:272)eptio(cid:374)(cid:863) (cid:894)ca(cid:396)l (cid:272)h(cid:373)itt(cid:895) Every state has to have a sovereign. Someone has to be empowered to decide on the exception because laws are created through a process that is in some sense outside of the law. Rule of law is created by a practice that is outside of the law (the sovereign) Not something that has existed for the entire history of human beings. And only within the last few hundred years that states have been universalized.