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    Federal orders cannot be sovereign — Carmelics
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    Federal orders cannot be sovereign

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    • 1.Sovereignty is a unique site of final and independent authority
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    • 2.In federal orders, no single entity has the last word on all political matters
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    • 3.In federal orders, authority and power are dispersed among a network of arenas
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    • 1.Sovereignty can be divided between levels of government without being eliminated, as Althusius argued in his theory of consociational polity.
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    • 2.The U.S. Constitution's framers explicitly theorized 'divided sovereignty' as a coherent doctrine, not a contradiction in terms.
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    • 3.If divided authority negates sovereignty entirely, then no historical state qualifies as sovereign, reducing the concept to vacuity.
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    • 1.Bodin's classical sovereignty doctrine presupposes a pre-democratic absolutist context inapplicable to constitutionally ordered federal republics.
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    • 2.In popular sovereignty theory, the people remain the ultimate sovereign and delegate authority to multiple tiers without surrendering final authority.
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    The tensions between sovereignty and federalism still pose puzzles, reflected in ‘international’ and ‘national’ understandings of the latter (Schütze 2009). If sovereignty is a unique site of final and independent authority, federal orders cannot be sovereign, since no one has the ‘last word’ on all political matters (Friedrich 1968), and “authority and power are dispersed among a network of arenas” (Elazar 1994, xiii). Another tradition, including Madison (Federalist Paper 39), and more recentl
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