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Hobbes's Constitutional Theory

2010· article· en· W2211931770 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueTSpace (University of Toronto) · 2010
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicSeventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPrinciple of legalityLegal positivismLawSovereigntyPositive lawNatural lawPolitical philosophyPhilosophy of lawPolitical scienceConstitutional theoryMunicipal lawPublic lawJurisprudenceLaw and economicsConstitutional lawPrivate lawSociologyPoliticsBlack letter law
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Abstract

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This essay closely examines Hobbes’ underexplored discussion of legal theory in the Leviathan, and argues that Hobbes’ account of rule through law explains why he considered that sovereign power should be regarded as legitimate by the sovereign’s subjects. Whereas modern commentators on Leviathan have generally insisted on the supremacy of positive law, the author suggests that the more compelling interpretation of Hobbes’ text supports a natural law reading, where one's obligation to the sovereign is based not solely on his power to enact laws but also on his compliance with the laws of nature. Hobbes’ discussions of law reveal his constitutional theory, a theory of fundamental principles of legality that does not fit neatly into our contemporary categories of legal positivism and natural law. The author shows that, for Hobbes, political order is legal order — an order created by a sovereign who rules through law, but which necessarily complies with the laws of nature.

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Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.920
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

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Opus teacher head0.026
GPT teacher head0.228
Teacher spread0.202 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it