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cord-345789-lze2ye3q	Bialasiewicz, Luiza	‘Individual sovereignty’ in pandemic times – A contradiction in terms?	2020-09-04		.txt	text/plain	1924	95	48	In articulating their claims to 'individual sovereignty', many of the European protesters against COVID-19 measures have appealed to the language of 'fundamental rights'. This double role of fundamental rights is what defines their essential role in ensuring that the inherent tension between individual autonomy and collective self-rule, i.e. sovereignty, does not result in the destruction of one or the other. Within modern constitutional democratic states, individual autonomy is expressed and protected through fundamental rights, which have a double-edged relationship with sovereignty. On the one hand, fundamental rights are, in their specific codified form, an expression of a sovereign choice; on the other hand, they protect individual liberty and autonomy (or self-rule) and limit the exercise of sovereignty. In this core meaning, sovereignty connects state authority with democracy and collective self-rule.	./cache/cord-345789-lze2ye3q.txt	./txt/cord-345789-lze2ye3q.txt