Judith Butler Quotes About Sovereignty

Quotes about: Sovereignty

• Popular sovereignty has to be given by a people to itself, and this is the important meaning of self-determination.

  Judith Butler

  Determination, Self, People

  Interview With Cihan Aksan, Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

• Law itself is either suspended, or regarded as an instrument that the state may use in the service of constraining and monitoring a given population; the state is not subject to the rule of law, but law can be suspended or deployed tactically and partially to suit the requirements of a state that seeks more and more to allocate sovereign power to its executive and administrative powers. The law is suspended in the name of "sovereignty" of the nation, where "sovereignty" denotes the task of any state to preserve and protect its own territoriality.

  Judith Butler

  Law, Names, Population

  Judith Butler (2006). “Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence”, p.55, Verso

• Where is democratic process or popular sovereignty for the endangered population? It cannot be "given" or "allocated" by some other power without that same power claiming the right to withdraw what it gives.

  Judith Butler

  Giving, Population, Process

  Interview with Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11. 2013.

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