prediction
He identifies the intended endpoint as surveillance-style universal monitoring where no person can resist the system.
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Sovereignty
He identifies the intended endpoint as surveillance-style universal monitoring where no person can resist the system.
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definition
Jiang distinguishes common will as what the people already are from general will as what the people could become if they acted by universal moral law.
diagnosis
He treats the general will as the sovereign and says the French Revolution threatened monarchies because it made the people, rather than the monarch, the highest authority.
definition
Jiang defines the state as supreme executive authority sovereign over a territory and the nation as a people with shared identity through language, culture, history, or ethnicity.
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Jiang says Russians see themselves as a spiritual people who demand sovereignty and will sacrifice against America because their civilization, God, and truth are unique and correct.
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The Glorious Revolution officially establishes Parliament as Britain's ultimate sovereign authority over the king.
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The VOC is presented as the first multinational corporation: not government-controlled, but empowered to raise armies, make laws, issue currency, and monopolize spice trade.
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The Declaration of the Rights of Man begins modernity by treating rights as sacred, God-given, and prior to government.
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"Okay. So, the idea is this. You destroy the world. Once you destroy the world through wars, through famine, through genocide, there will be..."
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"So why do we choose to surrender our freedom in order to join a community? And so his theory is that we join society..."
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"The common will is who we are. The general will is who we could be if we came together as a people. Okay? And..."
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"you should behave the law of universality secondly is the idea of free will no one can compel you to smile you must smile..."
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"This is God, basically. And from the sovereign, we achieve the state, the government. And the state makes us into citizens. And then we..."
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"So good morning. We have three more classes. The first class we are doing today is on the nation -state. Next Tuesday we will..."
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"...No. We. Are. A. Spiritual. People. We. Unique. And. We. Demand. Sovereignty. We. Demand. The. Right. To. Live. The. Lives. We. Choose. To. Live...."
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"Be. One. Winner. There. Can. No. Compromise. Okay. So. There's. War. In. Ukraine. It. Is. Seemingly. Something. Much. More. Devastating. Much. More. Cataclysmic. Alright...."
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"Remember, the idea of the Puritans is they want to establish a religious centralized theocracy on England. But England has always been pretty independent..."
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"...is significant because it establishes for the first time officially the sovereignty of Parliament over the king. This is really important. Now it's official...."
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"And the solution would forever change human history. In 1602, okay, 1602, they created something called the Dutch East Indies Company. And it's known..."
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"They're hungry. They're unemployed. They feel hopeless. They feel the king is aloof. So a group of people, they storm the Bastille. The storming..."
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