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@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ Like the "sons" of Aristotle's Politics, Alverado argues that Law is *given*, no
> "Majorities have been conditioned to believe whatever they decide upon, that is, whatever their will may be, *is law*. The understanding of law as something standing over and conditioning sovereignty has been lost... With sovereignty having been given this absolute, above-the-law air, we get representative bodies charged with carrying out the will of this absolute sovereign. This establishes a vortex of power wherein politicians are encouraged to bid up their promises to carry out the wishes of the sovereign people... " Alverado, Common Law and Natural Rights, 2009 > "Majorities have been conditioned to believe whatever they decide upon, that is, whatever their will may be, *is law*. The understanding of law as something standing over and conditioning sovereignty has been lost... With sovereignty having been given this absolute, above-the-law air, we get representative bodies charged with carrying out the will of this absolute sovereign. This establishes a vortex of power wherein politicians are encouraged to bid up their promises to carry out the wishes of the sovereign people... " Alverado, Common Law and Natural Rights, 2009
So, again here, we have the sacred, sovereign self, surfacing in modern politics as an absolute ruler in the form of a democratic polity who's will *just is law*, and tradition and principle be damned, if it gets in the way. This is how the oscillation occurs. A constant push and pull of action-reaction, between the collectivists and the libertines, each with his own synthetic materialist eschatology, and each with his own absolute, inviolable will, necessarily irreconcilable with any around him, because to reconcile would be to admit a unifying authority over and above the individual, the necessary rejection of which, according to Liberals, and as we have heard from Encyclopedia Britannica, is "the central problem of politics". So, again here, we have the sacred, sovereign self, surfacing in modern politics as an absolute ruler in the form of a democratic polity whose will *just is The Law*, and tradition and principle be damned if it gets in the way. This is how the oscillation occurs. A constant push and pull of action-reaction, between the collectivists and the libertines, each with his own synthetic materialist eschatology, and each with his own absolute, inviolable will, necessarily irreconcilable with any around him, because to reconcile would be to admit a unifying authority over and above the individual, the necessary rejection of which, according to Liberals, and as we have heard from Encyclopedia Britannica, is "the central problem of politics".
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