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    Challenges→The sovereign lacks the right to fully control individuals' beliefs

    Therefore, the sovereign's right to regulate public belief-expression is not contingent on the impossible task of inner compulsion but on the legitimate suppression of destabilizing public opinion.

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    Key Terms

    Destabilizing public opinion(as used in political philosophy)
    Opinions or beliefs shared among people that threaten to weaken or disrupt the existing order or government.
    Inner compulsion(as used in political philosophy)
    Forcing someone to think or believe something in their mind, rather than just controlling their outward behavior.
    Public belief-expression(as used in political philosophy)
    The act of sharing what you think or believe with others in society, like speaking your opinion publicly.
    Regulate(as used in governance)
    To control or set rules about how something is allowed to happen.
    Suppression(as used in describing what happens to cross-terms during decoherence)

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    The act of making something smaller, weaker, or disappear entirely.
    contingent(De Interpretatione 12–13)
    Equated with 'possible'; on the two-sided interpretation, contingency excludes necessity (possibility implies non-necessity).
    sovereign(Kant's civil state theory)
    The people united in the civil state, as distinguished from the individual members who are subjects obligated to obey the head of state.

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