The New State · Character

Léon Duguit

The Bordeaux jurist whose doctrine of social solidarity the narrator admires and then presses hard, asking how le droit objectif actually evolves.

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Also known as Duguit, M. Léon Duguit, M. Duguit, M. Léon Duguit of Bordeaux

First appearance: part i the group principle

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Mentioned in the context of legal and political pluralism, providing theoretical support for group-based governance.

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Duguit holds that positive law must follow le droit objectif and that the state's right to will rests on the thing willed, not on any subjective right. The narrator agrees — then disagrees, because Duguit separates will and purpose from the reciprocal interchange instead of seeing them as one process. His pragmatism, still clinging to an absolute standard in 'social solidarity,' becomes the foil against which the book argues that jurisprudence must be founded on the whole social process, not on ends alone.

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The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government
Mentioned in the context of legal and political pluralism, providing theoretical support for group-based governance.
II: The Occupational Group
Referenced for his theories on social solidarity and the role of groups in law.
XXVIII: Political Pluralism
Cited for his 'objective' theory of law and new conception of the state, which challenges traditional sovereignty.
XXIX: Political Pluralism and Sovereignty
His theory of 'le droit' based on social solidarity is discussed and critiqued for denying the reality of a collective will.

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