The state as the decisive political entity possesses an enormous power: the possibility of waging war and thereby publicly disposing of the lives of … - Carl Schmitt

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The state as the decisive political entity possesses an enormous power: the possibility of waging war and thereby publicly disposing of the lives of men. The jus belli contains such a disposition. It implies a double possibility: the right to demand from its own members the readiness to die and unhesitatingly to kill enemies.