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    It is not the case that States ought to transfer part of their sovereignty to the federal level while retaining sovereignty over internal affairs

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    • 1.Sovereignty is indivisible: delegating any portion to a superior authority transforms the remaining 'sovereignty' into mere administrative autonomy.
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    • 2.Bodin and Hobbes establish that a sovereign subject to external override on any matter is no longer sovereign but a subordinate jurisdiction.
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    • 3.The claim's 'layered sovereignty' therefore describes not federal division but the abolition of state sovereignty disguised by gradualist language.
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    • 1.The distinction between 'external' and 'internal' affairs is practically incoherent, as trade, migration, and environmental policy are simultaneously both.
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    • 2.Hegel argues that a state's internal ethical life (Sittlichkeit) is constitutively expressed through its foreign relations, making the separation artificial.
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    • 3.Granting federal authority over 'external' matters thus inevitably penetrates internal self-determination, collapsing the premise on which the claim rests.
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    • 1.Sovereignty can be conceived as layered rather than monolithic
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    • 2.The part of sovereignty concerning external relations to other states can be separated from the part concerning internal affairs
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    • 3.Overcoming the state of nature among states requires federal-level authority over external relations
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