Public Law Studies Quarterly

From the Legitimacy of Power to the Limitation of Sovereignty; A Pattern Based on Natural Law

Document Type : Article

Authors

Mohammadjavad Javid 1
Yaser Mokarrami Ghartavol 2
Fatemeh Movahhedi Pashabeyg 3

1 Prof , Department of Public and International Law, Faculty of Law and Political Science, university of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

2 Department of Public Law, Faculty of Law and Political Science, university of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

3 MA. in Public Law, Department of Public and International Law, Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Allame, Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22059/jplsq.2021.301382.2401
Abstract
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 advocate” 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.

Keywords

absoluteness
limitation of sovereignty
natural Rights
natural justice
power
natural rules
legitimacy
relativism

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Public Law Studies Quarterly
Volume 53, Issue 4
Winter 2024
Winter 2024
Pages 1721-1739

  • Receive Date 03 May 2020
  • Revise Date 30 July 2021
  • Accept Date 26 December 2021

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