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When Law and Politics Become One
« on: September 02, 2018, 03:16:30 pm »
September 2, 2018
When Law and Politics Become One
By William J. Watkins, Jr.

Most Americans believe that politics and law are separate entities.  This was the position of Aristotle, who treated politics as a study in itself, and Hugo Grotius, the eminent Dutch scholar of the seventeenth century who developed the theory of international law.  Not all thinkers have been so careful to distinguish the two subjects.  For example, Jean Bodin, the sixteenth-century French philosopher who developed the first comprehensive doctrine of sovereignty, intermingled the two. 

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