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1 - Democratic Subjects and Social Process

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2021

Christopher Thornhill
Christopher Thornhill
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University of Manchester
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Chapter 1 explains how modern society as a whole has been formed through processes of legal integration, linked originally to the dissolution of feudalism in Europe. It discusses how processes of legal integration shaped the rise of modern central states and defined the patterns of individual subjectivity that characterized early modern societies. It also shows how early legal and political theories that first defined the form of national legal and political systems, especially theories of citizenship, were sociologically attached to these processes of legal integration, and they provided a conceptual structure to support them.

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CitizenshipState FormationFeudalismLegal Integration
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Democratic Crisis and Global Constitutional Law , pp. 16 - 40
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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