Jean Bodin's Les Six Livres de la Republique (1576), the founding text of modern sovereignty theory. Defines sovereignty as the absolute and perpetual power of a commonwealth, indivisible and not subject to any earthly superior, a concept later taken up and reworked by Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau in turn.
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Stanford University, Center for the Study of Language and Informationentry: Jean Bodin
Majesty or sovereignty is the most high, absolute, and perpetual power over the citizens and subjects in a Commonwealth, which the Latins call Majestas
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