Political Theology

I didnt enjoy this reading as much as some of our other readings. It was somewhat difficult to understand what Schmitt was trying to say. Schmitt defines sovereignty as the decision over what is an exception. A soverign is he who decides on this exception.

"There exists no norm that is applicable to chaos. For a legal order to make sense, a normal situation must exist, and he is sovereign who definitely decides whether this normal situation actually exists."

That quote tells me that the sovereign can decide on what it wants to and can decide if a legal order makes sense. The exception is reflected in the doctrine of natural law tendency and the rationalist tendency.