Title

Our Sovereign Body: Narrating the Fiction of Sovereign Immunity in the Supreme Court: Part I-A English Stories

Abstract

This is part I-A of a Book I am working towards on the narratives and fictions of sovereign immunity. The goal in this part is to look before the American republic and towards the background in which American Sovereignty came to be shaped by -- the feudal notion of the sovereign; the Lockean response, and the Blackstonean doctrine. The first part looks at the legal fictions surrounding the kingship, their sources and their effects. The Second part looks to the specific ways of treating the sovereign in law, namely viewing King as Property owner or patriarch, Trustee, and Constitution.

Disciplines

Comparative and Foreign Law | Constitutional Law | Courts | Entertainment, Arts, and Sports Law | Judges | Law and Politics | Legal History | Property Law and Real Estate | Religion Law | State and Local Government Law

Date of this Version

August 2006