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    There can be only one sovereign body in the world, namely... — Carmelics
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    There can be only one sovereign body in the world, namely the human race as a whole.

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    • 1.Sovereignty should reside with the people.
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    • 2.The concept of sovereignty itself involves indivisibility.
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    • 3.An indivisible sovereignty cannot be distributed among multiple sovereign bodies.
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    • 1.Westphalian state sovereignty is grounded in the practical necessity of territorially bounded coercive authority for law enforcement and democratic accountability.
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    • 2.A single global sovereign body lacks the institutional capacity to remain democratically responsive to the diverse and particular needs of local communities.
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    • 3.Therefore, dispersed state sovereignty better fulfills the normative conditions that justify sovereignty than a unified world body could.
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    • 1.Federalist and subsidiarity traditions (Madison, Althusius) demonstrate that sovereignty can be legitimately divided across multiple levels of governance.
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    • 2.If sovereignty is divisible, then multiple sovereign bodies can coexist without logical contradiction, defeating the indivisibility premise.
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    SEP: cosmopolitanism
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    Some cosmopolitans developed their view into a political theory about international relations. The most radical of eighteenth-century political cosmopolitans was no doubt Anacharsis Cloots (Jean-Baptiste du Val-de-Grace, baron de Cloots, 1755–1794). Cloots advocated the abolition of all existing states and the establishment of a single world state under which all human individuals would be directly subsumed. His arguments drew first of all on the general structure of social contract theory. If i
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