I'm going to be brutally honest and say I hated this reading. Full of flowery legal language, not only was it incredibly difficult to get a comprehensive understanding of most subjects he talked about, but it was also a lot longer than most of the the readings so far. This was almost as enjoyable as reading the bible for pleasure. Not fun.
Among the few things I did get out of this book was his idea of the 'exception' and it's relation to the sovereign. (although his definition of sovereign wasn't so clear to me) The 'exception' being the point at which severe economic of political disturbance require the application of extraordinary measures by the 'sovereign'. And then he explains the two tendencies there are when dealing with the exception. The natural law tendency and the rationalist tendency. This concept reminded me of the old saying about how if you drop a from into a pot of boiling water it will immediately jump out. But if you place him there before it's boiling and slowly being to boil it, it will stay until it is dead.
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