POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Jean Bodin, Extraterritoriality, Pontifex Maximus
10 Apr 2013
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No state able to perform these varied functions by power (or influence) alone. If nobody obeyed the state, the state would be powerless and therefore collapse. In antiquity, locus of supreme political authority located in particular institution/individual: Nswt, oba, basileus, archon, imperator, pontifex maximus, consul. However, the idea of supreme political authority is not well articulated. Supreme political authority as an articulated idea. Emergence of ideology of supreme political authority: The ability of a state to do what it wants without external pressure. The ability to fundamentally govern the community. The ability to make decisions indigenously (rather than be ruled by others) The ability to make decisions as one pleases (to do what we want) Why can we say that the following were all independent and autonomous but not sovereign: Looking at sovereignty as an idea that emerged in europe. Grew out of the contradictions of the feudal way of organizing political authority.
