This was the high point as well as the turning point of Frederick's conception of sovereignty.
The second was an extension and revision of Hobbes's conception of sovereignty and the idea of law as a kind of command.
The great intellectual rival of the monarchomachs in their own day was Jean Bodin, who, in his Six Livres de la république (1576; The Six Bookes of a Commonweale [1606]), defended a near-absolutist conception of sovereignty and denied that ancient constitutions or mechanisms of consent could coherently limit the authority of the sovereign.
If Schmitt's conception of sovereignty is to be defensible, it must therefore be given a democratic interpretation.
The United States has had a complicated history reconciling its conception of sovereignty with its obligations as a global leader.
Politics students, for instance, may feel particularly at home in the realm of public law, examining how devolution, the EU, and different conceptions of parliamentary sovereignty have all impacted upon the English constitution.
The view that the Schmitt of the Weimar period can be read as a defender of liberal order has been questioned by authors who stress the continuity between Schmitt's conceptions of law, sovereignty, and democracy and fascist ideology (Wolin 1992; Dyzenhaus 1997; Scheuerman 1999).
The concept of sovereignty in international law most often connotes external sovereignty.
For the manner in which the initial security council resolution was contorted out of all recognition from the protection of civilians to, in effect, outright regime change has left a sour taste in the mouths of powers like China, Russia and India who still hold an absolute conception of state sovereignty".
With a long background working in China's propaganda apparatus, Lu has been behind China's recent campaigns promoting its conception of Internet sovereignty abroad, including a trip to Washington D.C. and Silicon Valley in the first week of December.
