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    A sovereign must legislate wisely so as not to incite ins... — Carmelics
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    A sovereign must legislate wisely so as not to incite insurrection if the sovereign is to maintain its right.

    Democracy & GovernanceSocial Contract
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    • 1.The right of the state is constituted and limited by the power of the people.
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    • 2.Unwise legislation that incites insurrection increases the number of subjects conspiring against the sovereign, thereby diminishing the sovereign's power and right.
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    • 1.Hobbes argues that subjects surrender the right to judge sovereign legislation as wise or unwise upon entering the covenant.
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    • 2.If subjects lack legitimate standing to evaluate sovereign wisdom, their insurrectionary response cannot constitute a normative limit on sovereign right.
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    • 3.Therefore, insurrection diminishes sovereign power empirically but does not affect the juridical scope of sovereign right as such.
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    • 1.Sovereign right derives from divine authority or natural law, not from the aggregated power of subjects (Bossuet, Filmer).
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    • 2.If sovereign legitimacy is grounded in a source external to popular power, insurrection reflects moral defect in subjects, not diminished sovereign right.
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    By adhering to a strict naturalism about right and obligation and maintaining that “the sovereign power in a State has right over a subject only in proportion to the excess of its power over that of a subject” (Epistle 50), Spinoza, unlike Hobbes, places the burden of political stability on the sovereign rather than the subject (see Wernham 1958, 27). The commonwealth must be structured so as to promote compliance; when there is excessive vice or non-compliance, the blame must be “laid at the do
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