POLI 231 Lecture : POLI 231 - Siéyes 2

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Democratic/political -> members of nation by sharing political institutions. Democratic -> sovereignty and legitimacy rests in the nation. > political power is legitimate insofar as it is compatible with the freedom of the nation. Legitimacy can be answered by saying that it rests with the freedom of nation. Systems like nationalism combines the questions of legitimacy and unity. Legitimacy of political power here is sprung from the very people over which the political power is wielded. Nation: body of associates living under common law and represented by the same legislature. Three elements of the definition: body of associates -> corporate existence of nation having a general will, common law -> binding element; specifies boundaries for the nation. Regulation of only what is held in common: common representation -> common interests = legitimate. Inconsistency: nation leads to legitimacy, but representation leads to the nation. This is an incentive for other definitions of nation.

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