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Logics of Legitimacy
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Logics of Legitimacy

by Margaret Stout
September 2017
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
325 pages
11h 32m
English
Routledge
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authoritative role has been played by the church and royalty. inking generically,
suce it to say that this ontological position lends itself to any form of authoritative
governance claiming sovereignty.
While it is true that the United States broke away from its monist (combined
political and religious system) beginnings during the Revolutionary War, it bor-
rows heavily from its ontology by separating church from state and then replac-
ing God with Nature (natural rights as opposed to divine right) and royalty with
elected representatives. is enables an analogous externalization of authority into
a conception of a sovereign state (Schmitt 1985). Taken to its extreme, this logic
supports the notion that the State ...
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ISBN: 9781466511613