ABSTRACT Legislative sovereignty is often discussed with one eye on the past and one eye on the procedural functions of law-making in the present. This limits the scope for a conceptual understanding of legislative sovereignty and hinders its theoretical progress. This article argues that legislative sovereignty contains within it the concept of an idol and that understanding the scope and impact of the idol of sovereignty is necessary for future development in this field. Theories from Kant, Nietzsche, von Mises and Derrida are used to offer a divergent critique of legislative sovereignty while the author calls for a move towards a nuanced view of legislative and Parliamentary Sovereignty to account for its idolism. The key factor preventing the development of a truly nuanced and reflective theory of sovereignty is the devotion to former idols which are inoperable and inconsistent with modern geopolitical, inter-state relationships. The author also argues that our knowledge of sovereignty is synthetic a priori and that development in this area can only be by reason, as knowledge derived experientially is subject to the Kantian Transcendental Idealism.

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立法主权：从法理学走向形而上学

摘要 立法主权的讨论常常是一只眼睛过去，一只眼睛现在立法的程序功能。这限制了对立法主权的概念理解范围，阻碍了其理论进步。本文认为立法主权包含偶像的概念，理解主权偶像的范围和影响是该领域未来发展的必要条件。康德、尼采、冯米塞斯和德里达的理论被用来对立法主权提出不同的批评，而作者呼吁朝着对立法和议会主权的细致入微的观点迈进，以解释其偶像崇拜。阻碍真正细致入微和反思性主权理论发展的关键因素是对前偶像的忠诚，这些偶像无法操作且不符合现代地缘政治和国家间关系。作者还认为，我们对主权的认识是先天综合的，这一领域的发展只能是理性的，因为经验上获得的知识受康德先验唯心主义的约束。