What did Jean Bodin, the philosopher credited with much of the development of the notion of sovereignty, mean when he argued that sovereignty was perpetual?
A) Because power was vested in the state, not an individual, the state would remain sovereign even if a particular leader died or was removed from power.
B) The Catholic Church would always determine what laws a country should follow.
C) The capitalist world system would perpetually exploit peripheral countries, robbing them of their sovereignty.
D) While individual states may have control over matters within their own borders, they were perpetually subject to a higher authority in their dealings with other states.
E) Sovereign state borders always remain the same.
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