Compact-theory popular sovereignty permits foreign intervention where European sovereignty does not

Evidence

The questions of legal intervention in international security turn on matters of compact theory: whether the people of a state are denied constitutional avenues of redress, so that popular sovereignty cannot have a political effect, and thus can enlist foreign assistance (as the French assisted us) is a notion quite at odds with European ideas of popular sovereignty (in which the state embodies that sovereignty). — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 314

Categorization

• XREF: Connects the American compact-theory tradition (relevant to Bobbitt’s work on constitutional legitimacy and national security) to European state-sovereignty theory. — connects to: Responsibility-to-Protect discourse shifted sovereignty from nations to individuals; State sovereignty is defined and limited by existing international rules. — HLA Hart, The Concept of Law (Clarendon Law…, 522; WTO design deliberately scaled European constitutionalism into a global trade constitution — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the…, 836

Broader Connections

• State sovereignty is defined and limited by existing international rules. #contradicts (0.60) — HLA Hart, The Concept of Law (Clarendon Law…, 522
• Responsibility-to-Protect discourse shifted sovereignty from nations to individuals #complicates (0.50)