2021
DOI: 10.14746/cph.2021.1.7
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Sovereignty and Decentralization – two competing perspectives on the crisis of the French monarchy in the 16th century

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to analyze two significant treatises concerning the constitutional structure of the 16th century French monarchy, namely Jean Bodin’s Les Six livres de la République and Vindiciae, contra tyrannos written under the pseudonym of Brutus. The texts were answers to an ongoing institutional crisis of the monarchy, especially in light of the strictly connected issues of decentralization and the weakness of the royal administrative apparatus. The paper portrays how the tension between the… Show more

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