Jean Bodin
- Jurist
- Jean Bodin
- School
- Sovereignty / Public Law
- Father of
- Modern Theory of Sovereignty
- Theory
- Modern theory of Sovereignty — sovereign power as absolute, perpetual, indivisible, and untransferred.
- Quote
Sovereignty is the absolute and perpetual power within a State.
- Books
Six Books of the Commonwealth (Les Six livres de la République, 1576)
- Propounded
Sovereignty as absolute, perpetual and indivisible power within a commonwealth
- Born
- 1530
- Died
- 1596
- Portrait
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