J.E.A. Jolliffe, Angevin Kingship (1955)https://twitter.com/mtsw/status/1263929802232262656 …
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This is genuinely a big part of the early twentieth-century trajectory of Anglophone constitutional history: realizing that the formally enumerated rights of office-holders bear at best a notional relationship to the actual exercise of power
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Though at the same time, it is probably true that, under current court precedent, governors lack the authority to order churches closed if they are not closing similar non-religious gatherings. If the gyms are open, the churches probably have to be. And vice-versa.
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What's at issue here is not the substantive disagreement but the understanding of how power is practically to be defined
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Oh, yes, I agree. Power lives in the perception of itself. Classic Hannah Arendt "On Violence" stuff. Just also pointing out that this is true at all levels - and often we blur the lines between the soft persuasion of leadership and the hard power of rulership.
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