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EGEMENLİLĞİN CUMHURİYETÇİ YAPI SÖKÜMÜ

Abstract

The ultimate goal of this study is to trace the concept of sovereignty in the republican thought. In accordance with the afore-mentioned goal, Ma-chiavellian thought will be discussed in this article. The arguments of Machiavelli on the questions such as the establishment of sovereignty and the independence of the state have made contributions to the maturation of the concept of sovereignty. On the other hand, Rousseau has associated the sovereignty with the nation through the general will. The thought of general will involves significant results in terms both the theories of democracy and the theories of revolution. The point which the republican sovereignty theories of these two thinkers is concluded and converge is the notions of civil republicanism and the modern democratic nation state.