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Sovereignty

In Our Time: Philosophy

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The Three Pillars of Political Theory

There has to really be a sovereign underneath what seems to be a divided arrangement of power. In Rome in particular, and anticipated in some Greek thought, there was the idea that perhaps you could have a mixed regime. It's like they go before a horse to market here,. Let's go back to Athens. What could you get an encapsulation of an idea of something like sovereignty that might have come out of the Athenian experience? I think it is the idea that the demos, the people are curious in the state... They're not accountable to anyone else.

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