The Sovereign (n.) is one who owing to his right to proclaim a state of emergency, is ensured of remaining anchored in the legal order. He is outside, yet still inside the legal order in what amounts to an ecstasy belonging.
Sovereign (n.) stands outside the legal order and yet belongs to it: being-outside and belonging at once, the oxymoron of an ecstatic belonging.
Sovereign (n.) is where the crack running through the law can no longer be mended: between power and its exercise a gap opens that no decision can fill.
Sovereign (n.) sits in the state where God sits in the Cartesian world, for Schmitt; for Benjamin he is lord of creatures, but still a creature.
Sovereign (n.) is lawless at his core precisely because he is living law; the exception is the hidden, truer life of the law.