Every crime was treated as an assault on the sovereign’s person

Evidence

We must regard the public execution, as it was still ritualized in the eighteenth century, as a political operation. It was logically inscribed in a system of punishment, in which the sovereign, directly or indirectly, demanded, decided and carried out punishments, in so far as it was he who, through the law, had been injured by the crime. In every offence there was a crimen majestatis and in the least criminal a potential regicide. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 108

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The executioner personified the sovereign’s answering violence against the criminal. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 107; Public punishment served to reconstitute the sovereign’s injured authority — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 675; The punished body anchors sovereign power’s manifestation — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 110 (+3 more)

Related

• The executioner personified the sovereign’s answering violence against the criminal. (similarity 0.89)
• The sovereign executed regicides with symbolic maximal torture (similarity 0.88)
• Public execution reactivates injured sovereign power rather than restoring justice. (similarity 0.83)
• The punished body anchors sovereign power’s manifestation (similarity 0.82)
• Ritualized death faded because death escaped sovereign power’s reach (similarity 0.82)
• Execution rituals were explicitly military displays of armed justice. (similarity 0.81)
• The king’s pardoning power displayed sovereignty more fully than the execution itself. (similarity 0.81)
• Sovereign power was recharged only through visible spectacle (similarity 0.80)
• Public executions taught the people that violence could be met with violence (similarity 0.80)
• Execution sites and torments mirrored the crime’s form and setting (similarity 0.80)
• Public punishment served to reconstitute the sovereign’s injured authority (similarity 0.80)
• Public execution functions as a political ritual of power, not mere justice. (similarity 0.80)
• Justice reenacted the crime in execution to annul it (similarity 0.79)
• Public torture was spectacle designed to display sovereign power publicly (similarity 0.79)
• Rather than displaying sovereign power, executions staged a reversible duel between executioner and people (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Public punishment served to reconstitute the sovereign’s injured authority #expands (0.95) — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 675
• The punished body anchors sovereign power’s manifestation #exemplifies (0.90) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 110
• The sovereign executed regicides with symbolic maximal torture #exemplifies (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 108
• Contract theory makes every crime an attack on the whole social body #qualifies (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 146
• A knight’s noble status forced him into the harsher penalty for robbery #exemplifies (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 493