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    It is not the case that Federal orders cannot be sovereign

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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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    Reasons Against

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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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