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Record W4416019425 · doi:10.21991/cf29502

What is Sovereignty?

2025· article· W4416019425 on OpenAlexvenueaboutno aff
Ian Peach

Bibliographic record

VenueConstitutional Forum / Forum constitutionnel · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCommonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSovereigntyAssertionPoliticsRule of lawReading (process)De factoPopular sovereignty

Abstract

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In reading Canadian Aboriginal rights jurisprudence, the central role that judicial acceptance that the British Crown was, and is, sovereign plays in Canadian law and politics becomes crystal clear. Before one can make such an assertion, however, once has to address the fundamental question that lies behind the assertion — what is sovereignty? Is there a principled definition of what “sovereignty” is that allows sovereignty to exist in a society governed by the rule of law? Or is sovereignty merely a legal fiction, created to provide an ex post facto legal justification for what is, in truth, merely an exercise of raw power? And if it is a concept that can exist in conjunction with the rule of law, how is sovereignty legally acquired and secured?

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.006
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.458
Threshold uncertainty score0.911

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0160.076
Scholarly communication0.0120.012
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0040.007
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.027
GPT teacher head0.324
Teacher spread0.297 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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