HSRP-624

Bodin and Blackstone define sovereignty the same way: the highest power, under no other human authority

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1. Header

Number
HSRP-624
Category
Natural Law
Grade
ESTABLISHED
Status
ACTIVE
Entry form
Full
First entered
2026-10-18
Last revised
Not recorded
Register entry
https://worldfreedomcore.com/hsrp-research-notes#HSRP-624

2. The claim, in full

Bodin and Blackstone define sovereignty the same way: the highest power, under no other human authority

Cited on: /sovereign-citizens. Entered 2026-10-18 by the SOVEREIGN CITIZENS block, tag NEW-SC11 (brief item H11). THE PAGE'S OWN GRADE LINE READS: "ESTABLISHED". Knolles OCR (page markers may be off by one). Blackstone on Avalon (first-edition pagination; long s modernized).

3. What it rests on

No confidence intervals are recorded for any figure in this block.

4. Sources

5. Counter-evidence

6. Why this grade

ESTABLISHED

The register defines ESTABLISHED as: Supported directly by primary texts or published findings.

7. Correction history

No correction events are recorded. The entry's status is ACTIVE: no later entry amends, supersedes or withdraws it.

8. Related observations

No related observations are linked in the register.

9. Where this appears on the site

Content pages that cite this observation inline:

Pages citing a source this observation rests on: /sovereign-citizens, /legal-self-disclaimer, /national-security-notice, /natural-law, /the-righteous-and-the-corrupt-sovereign, /your-duty.

10. Open questions

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11. Machine block

The register record this page was generated from, with the derived fields added:

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  "title": "Bodin and Blackstone define sovereignty the same way: the highest power, under no other human authority",
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  "note": "Cited on: /sovereign-citizens. Entered 2026-10-18 by the SOVEREIGN CITIZENS block, tag NEW-SC11 (brief item H11). THE PAGE'S OWN GRADE LINE READS: \"ESTABLISHED\". Knolles OCR (page markers may be off by one). Blackstone on Avalon (first-edition pagination; long s modernized).",
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      "statement": "Bodin (Knolles), I.8, p. 84: \"MAiestie or Soueraigntie is the most high, absolute, and perpetuall power over the citisens and subiects in a Commonweale\" [SRC-1135]",
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    },
    {
      "statement": "Bodin (Tooley), I.8: \"it is the distinguishing mark of the sovereign that he cannot in any way be subject to the commands of another, for it is he who makes law for the subject\" [SRC-1194]",
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    },
    {
      "statement": "Blackstone, 1 Comm. 49: \"there is and must be in all of them a supreme, irresistible, absolute, uncontrolled authority, in which the jura summi imperii, or the rights of sovereignty, reside.\" [SRC-202]",
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      "statement": "Both admit the popular form; Bodin (Knolles II.1, p. 184): \"when all the people, or the greater part thereof hath in it the soueraigne power and commaund, as in one bodie\" [SRC-1135]",
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