So.... Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The 'Social Contract' by Jean-Jacques Rousseau is a brilliant model of goverance, if there ever was one. The picture of sovereignty has clearly had a huge influence on G. Agamben in his huge works on Political governance and political rights: 'concerning the subject'. His ideas on 'equality' are brilliantly romantic, but I like what he is saying, that a state of equals is the only one worth having. It is a good to enshrine rights in a codified, republican constitution to articulate the extent of their reach, that is, reducing the dispute over their interpretation and the extent of political sovereignty. I am in favour of a codified Bill of Rights in the UK, if not for anything else than to deplete ambiguity over the authority of the Human Rights Act and its applicability in day to day living.