An Introduction to the History of the Science of Politics
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The sovereign power could, it is admitted, repeal the law but for the clause forbidding repeal. But such a clause is itself part of the law, so that the sovereign can repeal the body and the supposed safeguard of the law together. If there is a legislative power which cannot do this, it is not really sovereign. Thus Bodin ^^ distinguished legal obligation in the strict sense from purely moral and honourable duties on the one hand, and from the duties created by convention between independent po...wers on the other, and theieby made * Bodin's own Latin version of liis work is really a new recension and is fuller and more precise in language than the French. 54 HISTORY OF THE SCIENCE OF POLITICS a great step towards the clear separation of the legal from the ethical sphere of thought within political science itself — a thing only less in importance than Aristotle's original separation of Politics from Ethics. But Bodin shrinks from the extreme conse- quences to which Hobbes pursued a similar conception.
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