Book contents
- The Double-Facing Constitution
- The Double-Facing Constitution
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Theoretical Foundations
- 2 The Janus-Faced Constitution
- 3 The Idea of the Federative
- 4 Hobbes’s Janus-Faced Sovereign
- 5 Jurisprudential Reflections on Cosmopolitan Law
- 6 From Republican Self-Love to Cosmopolitan Amour-Propre: Europe’s New Constitutional Experience
- Part II Border Crossings: Comity and Mobility
- Part III The Foreign in Foreign Relations Law
- Index
4 - Hobbes’s Janus-Faced Sovereign
from Part I - Theoretical Foundations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 January 2020
Book contents
- The Double-Facing Constitution
- The Double-Facing Constitution
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Theoretical Foundations
- 2 The Janus-Faced Constitution
- 3 The Idea of the Federative
- 4 Hobbes’s Janus-Faced Sovereign
- 5 Jurisprudential Reflections on Cosmopolitan Law
- 6 From Republican Self-Love to Cosmopolitan Amour-Propre: Europe’s New Constitutional Experience
- Part II Border Crossings: Comity and Mobility
- Part III The Foreign in Foreign Relations Law
- Index
Summary
Theodore Christov traces Hobbes’s own thought on the nature of the sovereign state within the international sphere and disassociates him from such a common assumption. He argues that the domestic constitution of the Hobbesian sovereign is the precondition for the emergence of an international legal framework based on the consent of voluntary states and informed by their practice of the law of nations. The possibility for international legal compliance can be ensured only when states configure their domestic constitutions not as independently sovereign but as interdependently sovereign.
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- The Double-Facing Constitution , pp. 94 - 120Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020