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Conditionalized Sovereignty: The Permission-Based Citizen and the Asymmetry of Legal Maturity

Author(s) Dr. Elias Rubenstein
Country United States
Abstract This article develops the concept of conditionalized sovereignty to explain how modern legal systems may preserve formal autonomy while conditioning its practical exercise through administrative, fiscal, medical, moral, institutional, historical, and ontological forms of conditioning. The article argues that modern law often attributes full maturity to citizens in domains of obligation, taxation, liability, punishment, labor, debt, and compliance, while granting only conditional maturity in domains of self-regarding autonomy such as body, health, property, consciousness, conscience, family life, existential self-direction, and risk. To analyze this asymmetry, it introduces the Sovereignty-Restriction Test, which evaluates regulation according to legal ontology, self-regarding versus other-regarding conduct, concrete harm, inherited bias, burden of justification, proportionality, and symmetry of legal maturity. Applied across illustrative domains, including taxation, property regulation, medical refusal, health governance, cognitive liberty, moral governance, and institutionally mediated freedom, the framework shows that legal systems become internally inconsistent when they demand full responsibility from citizens while denying equivalent sovereignty over self-regarding choices without concrete, proportional, publicly justifiable, and bias-aware harm prevention.
Keywords Conditionalized Sovereignty, Legal Maturity, Autonomy, Cognitive Liberty, Legal Paternalism, Legal Ontology, Bodily Autonomy, Legal Bias
Field Sociology > Administration / Law / Management
Published In Volume 8, Issue 3, May-June 2026
Published On 2026-05-29
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2026.v08i03.79690
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