Statesmanship and Scottish Jurisprudence
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https://doi.org/10.63277/gsc.v20i.4970Abstract
In the history of Western juridical-political theory and practice, the Scottish Enlightenment distinguished itself also for the ability of certain jurists in knowing how to unite the tradition of Roman jurisprudence with the conception of the “universal natural law”. Many theories which tried to explain the origins (and the reasons) of political society, the role of the statute law and that of the sovereign originated from it. Particularly, sovereignty is here thought of as a power which is able to reabsorb all others, the cohesive strength which holds together all society. The law therefore becomes the vector which translates the sovereign will into rationally evalued ordre d’État. In this essay, the author focuses on the role of the “statesman” who often acts behind the scenes for a sovereign power, justifying his acting as lawmaker – an acting conditioned by individual thought and interests – on the basis of a “pretend” universal law. From which the capacity of “finding” (discovering) particular laws which reflect the universal wisdom in a given juridical-political and social context originates.
