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Jean Bodin
Definition
- Jean Bodin, perhaps born in 1529, in Angers, France, died in Laon, France. Scholars principally remember him for his theory of sovereignty, which provided a central organizing principle for the development of the modern legal theory of the state.Bodin was born into a successful bourgeois family. [Source: Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives; Bodin, Jean (1530–1596)]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Jean_Bodin
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