TY - JOUR ID - 88672 TI - From the Legitimacy of Power to the Limitation of Sovereignty; A Pattern Based on Natural Law JO - Public Law Studies Quarterly JA - JPLSQ LA - en SN - 2423-8120 AU - Javid, Mohammadjavad AU - Mokarrami Ghartavol, Yaser AU - Movahhedi Pashabeyg, Fatemeh AD - Prof , Department of Public and International Law, Faculty of Law and Political Science, university of Tehran, Tehran, Iran AD - Department of Public Law, Faculty of Law and Political Science, university of Tehran, Tehran, Iran AD - MA. in Public Law, Department of Public and International Law, Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Allame, Tehran, Iran Y1 - 2023 PY - 2023 VL - 53 IS - 4 SP - 1721 EP - 1739 KW - absoluteness KW - limitation of sovereignty KW - natural rights KW - Natural Justice KW - power KW - Natural rules KW - legitimacy KW - Relativism DO - 10.22059/jplsq.2021.301382.2401 N2 - Among supporters of natural rights, it is believed that government is necessary and natural, but limiting the sovereignty and power of this government is also essential. The Government has been natural and necessary in natural rights advocateā€ s idea, following this grand approach, it is essential to the restriction of the sovereignty and power of this government. In public law studies, authority differs from crude or pure power, and the institution of authority is fundamentally linked to legitimacy .The basis of such legitimacy is the early guidance of natural rights that transforms pure force into authority under conditions of legitimacy. The nature of authority has a nature of power that is attached to legitimacy and is called legitimate power. A great example of this authority within the realm of state is sovereignty, which is a tool in the hands of the government. A sovereignty that is bound, not as an absolute entity, but as a relative entity, despite its inherent and permanent characteristics, by natural rules as an absolute entity. The output of this article paper confirms the relativism of sovereignty and absoluteness to natural rules, thereby limiting sovereignty to absolute natural laws. UR - https://jplsq.ut.ac.ir/article_88672.html L1 - https://jplsq.ut.ac.ir/article_88672_30d66955fb9cc9782c240e76873267a2.pdf ER -