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Kant, Immanuel

"The Science Of Right"

By such deportation, he does not acquire any
share in the rights of citizens of the territory to which he is
banished.
4. The supreme power has also the right of imposing exile
generally (jus exilii), by which a citizen is sent abroad into the
wide world as the "out-land." And because the supreme authority thus
withdraws all legal protection from the citizen, this amounts to
making him an "outlaw" within the territory of his own country.
51. The Three Forms of the State: Autocracy;
Aristocracy; Democracy.
The three powers in the state, involved in the conception of a
public government generally (res publica latius dicta), are only so
many relations of the united will of the people which emanates from
the a priori reason; and viewed as such it is the objective
practical realization of the pure idea of a supreme head of the state.
This supreme head is the sovereign; but conceived only as a
representation of the whole people, the idea still requires physical
embodiment in a person, who may exhibit the supreme power of the state
and bring the idea actively to bear upon the popular will. The
relation of the supreme power to the people is conceivable in three
different forms: either one in the state rules over all; or some,
united in relation of equality with each other, rule over all the
others; or all together rule over each and all individually, including
themselves.


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