They have not received the law because it is handed down to them, but receive the law from the sovereign. In Beccaria’s case “the sovereign” could mean “the people” instead of the actual monarch. One can believe it to be so because Beccaria’s greatest influence came from the immortal Montesquieu and his Enlightenment philosophies of a limited government with a sole focus on popular sovereignty, but this digresses. He comments that laws should be left up to interpretation, not by a judge, but by a representative of society. If interpretation if left up to the logic of the judge, then it is open to be used incorrectly and
They have not received the law because it is handed down to them, but receive the law from the sovereign. In Beccaria’s case “the sovereign” could mean “the people” instead of the actual monarch. One can believe it to be so because Beccaria’s greatest influence came from the immortal Montesquieu and his Enlightenment philosophies of a limited government with a sole focus on popular sovereignty, but this digresses. He comments that laws should be left up to interpretation, not by a judge, but by a representative of society. If interpretation if left up to the logic of the judge, then it is open to be used incorrectly and