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The idea of sovereignty is a very big subject, and it is examined with great range and energy by Jean Bethke Elshtain in Sovereignty: God, State, and Self (Basic Books), which is based on her Gifford Lectures of 2006.

Publication: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
Publication Date: 01-NOV-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The idea of sovereignty is a very big subject, and it is examined with great range and energy by Jean Bethke Elshtain in Sovereignty: God, State, and Self (Basic Books), which is based on her Gifford Lectures of 2006.(While We're At It)(Book review)

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The idea of sovereignty is a very big subject, and it is examined with great range and energy by Jean Bethke Elshtain in Sovereignty: God, State, and Self (Basic Books), which is based on her Gifford Lectures of 2006. Thomas Hobbes made a hash of sovereignty in Leviathan, declaring the ruler to be above the law or, as Elshtain puts it, providing the rationale for an order (disorder) in which "laws take the form of...

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