POLS1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Parliamentary Sovereignty, Jus Soli, Direct Democracy
23 May 2018
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L3 SOVEREIGNTY, NATION AND INTERNATIONAL ORDER
What is the state?
Is the state still relevant in IR?
How do we reconcile international security with IR?
KEOHARELORINES OF SOVEREIGNTY
- The terms power, authority and commitment are changed as they become objects of political
struggle
- Sovereignty is perceived through a conceptual lens. The EU has embraced a notion of pooled
sovereignty. US has maintained a more classical conception of sovereignty.
- Federal govt. has full authority over the states in the US. If a state wants to leave they would have
to go to war due to 14th amendment.
- In the EU countries have autonomy to leave the union. Give up sovereignty for greater benefits e.g.
free trade.
- the oeptio that a state must have control of its external policies and be free of external
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- The US is faster to react to issues. Sovereignty in the US. Unitary sovereignty e.g. in the executive.
- EU used to be unitary sovereignty but its power is in the pooled sovereignty.
- EU countries can still decide how their militaries can be used.
THE NATION AND THE STATE
Principle Questions:
- What is Sovereignty?
- What is the Nation?
- What is the State?
Sovereignty
- Sovereignty is the highest govt. authority in a territorial state (the Sovereign)
o The power to enforce rules of conduct (including life and death)
o Power to make law
o Control of executive functions (tax). The executive are the only people able to take your
money.
- Independence from external control
Parliamentary Sovereignty
- The Supreme Authority of Parliament to make laws
o Blackstone
- The Absolute Monarchy defeated in the Glorious Revolution of 1688
- Parliaet a do athig eept ake a a ito a oa AV Die
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Popular Sovereignty
- Supreme authority residents in the people and can not be delegated
o Rousseau
- People should make laws themselves via direct democracy
- American Declaration of Independence
- Goerets derie their poer fro the oset of the goered
Where is Sovereignty divided in Australia? How the 3 Interact: Australia
- Personal → Queen Elizabeth II is the sovereign
- Parliamentary → legal sovereign (to make laws)
- Popular → elects members of the House of Representatives
- Australian has the Washminister system. Things are split. Sovereignty is in many bodies hands.
The State
- The state is the combination of people, territory, and sovereignty
- A state exists when a sovereign power (i.e. Parliament) rules over a population residing within the
boundaries of a fixed territory
- The state must be recognised by another state. Foreign recognition.
Citizenship
- Citizenship is membership in the state
- 2 methods of natural citizenship:
o 1. Birth (jus soli)
o 2. Blood (jus sanguinis)
- Countries with a sovereign can fix rules of citizenship however they like.
- Sovereign decides how many generations back citizenship will be granted.
The Nation
- Nation is an identity shared by a large no. of people based on, but not reducible to objective factors
such as common race, language, religion, customs and govt.
Stave vs Nation
- A state exists when a sovereign power (i.e. Parliament) rules over a population residing within the
boundaries of a fixed territory. See on a map.
- Nation is an identity shared by a large no. of people based on, but not reducible to objective factors
such as common race, language, religion, customs and govt. Identifiable characteristics.
INTERNATIONAL ORDER
Principle Questions
- What is international order?
o International Order is the combination of major actors, mechanisms and understandings
that mange the co-existence and interdependence of states.
o In short, international relations is about states ad ho the dot get alog.
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Document Summary
The terms power, authority and commitment are changed as they become objects of political struggle. Sovereignty is perceived through a conceptual lens. The eu has embraced a notion of pooled sovereignty. Us has maintained a more classical conception of sovereignty. Federal govt. has full authority over the states in the us. If a state wants to leave they would have to go to war due to 14th amendment. In the eu countries have autonomy to leave the union. The us is faster to react to issues. Eu used to be unitary sovereignty but its power is in the pooled sovereignty. Eu countries can still decide how their militaries can be used. Sovereignty is the highest govt. authority in a territorial state (the sovereign: the power to enforce rules of conduct (including life and death, power to make law, control of executive functions (tax). The executive are the only people able to take your money.
