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... > social science subjects > criminology and criminal justice > criminology > law and society > key people in law and society > Jean Bodin
... > social science subjects > politics and international relations > political science > law and courts > law and society > key people in law and society > Jean Bodin
social science subjects > politics and international relations > political science > key people in political science > Jean Bodin
... > social science subjects > politics and international relations > political science > political theory > key people in political theory > Jean Bodin

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Jean Bodin  

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  • Jean Bodin, perhaps born in 1529, in Angers, France, died in Laon, France. Scholars principally remember him for his theory of sovereignty, which provided a central organizing principle for the development of the modern legal theory of the state.Bodin was born into a successful bourgeois family. [Source: Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives; Bodin, Jean]

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