ok I managed to find a like 300-page book by leibniz on the topic of sovereignty, written under the pseudonym "caesarinus furstenerius", entirely in latin http://leibniz-potsdam.bbaw.de/bilder/IV2text.pdf …
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this is the good stuff directly into my veins etc
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I'm interested in this specifically because he lays out a distinction between sovereignty and majesty along these lines which seems crucial to the (very different) way the word is now usedpic.twitter.com/bCNEwMl7ux
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You might be interested in Ben Landau-Taylor's take on classical Latin terms for power. It seems Roman use captured many useful distinctions that English muddles.https://benlandautaylor.com/2018/07/06/the-vocabulary-of-power/ …
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