The Sovereign Event in a Nation's Law |
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Authors: | Motha Stewart |
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Institution: | (1) School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London, London, WC1E 7HX, pUK |
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Abstract: | This article interrogates the relationship between the sovereign event and a legal decision that purports to place sovereignty
beyond law. It argues that sovereignty cannot be regarded as unitary, and elaborates the process of iterability by which the
sovereign event is split from the outset. This dynamic is examined through an interrogation of the non-justiciability of sovereignty
in Mabo v. Queensland (No. 2)(1992). Along with the unitary conception of sovereignty, Mabo (No. 2) deployed an absolute measure for community in the form of the ‘skeletal principle’ of the doctrine of tenure. The paper argues
that a conception of the political that affirms the One sovereign source of community and law instead of the original dis-position of law, nation and community repeats the original violence, and will, at best, run aground on the righteous (mis)recognition
of the ‘appropriate savage’. It concludes with an indicative rethinking of community through the thought of Jean-Luc Nancy.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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Keywords: | aboriginal rights Agamben community deconstruction Derrida foundation law Nancy nation native title Negri post-colonial Schmitt sovereignty |
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