Spherical Sovereignty
idea · 2 works · 5 mentions · 11 anchored passages
spherical sovereignty · sovereignty of spheres · sphere · a sovereignty of spheres · coordinate spheres · new spherical sovereignty · sphere of action · spheres · spherical sovereignties · the sphere
in the texts
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
The central metaphor and doctrine of the passage: the notion that governmental powers are divided into limited 'spheres' (federal, state, judicial, and within England, king, lords, commons) that may be co-ordinate but not individually sovereign.
and in the allusion, tacitly suggests, and forcibly illustrates the sovereignty of the people over the spheres they have created.
” And I think it almost as difficult to see what is meant by the sovereignty of the spheres, as it is to hear the musick of the spheres.
It follows from both aspects of the case, one of which must be admitted, that political spheres, constituting a spherical sovereignty, must controul and restrain each other;
Elements
A solid figure generated by rotating a semicircle about its fixed diameter until it returns to its original position.
The centre of the sphere is the same as that of the semicircle.
The axis of the sphere is the straight line which remains fixed and about which the semicircle is turned.
A diameter of the sphere is any straight line drawn through the centre and terminated in both directions by the surface of the sphere.