Publisher: Cambridge University Press
E-ISSN: 1537-5943|19|1|1-24
ISSN: 0003-0554
Source: American Political Science Review, Vol.19, Iss.1, 1925-02, pp. : 1-24
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Abstract
Among the traditional political conceptions which in recent years have become the object of almost irreverent attack, is that which ascribes the quality of absolutism to that often elusive, but ever present, double-faced creation of the jurists which bears the name of sovereignty. Text-writers, sometimes in unqualified terms, still persist in claiming for it the unrestricted supremacy which was attributed to it in an age when its wielders everywhere were absolute monarchs; but an increasing number, less influenced by legal theories than by realities, see in it only the “ghost of personal monarchy,” as Hobbes characterized it, “sitting crowned on the grave thereof.”
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