Superpositions of the will of the collective subject

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The article discusses various aspects of the formation of the will of a collective subject. The author proposes the proposition that the collective subject exists in circulation directly in the act of collective will. From the methodological point of view, it is proposed to distinguish between the general opinion assumed by the members of the collective as a phenomenon and the formalized decision of the collective subject (community) achieved by means of legal procedures as a noumenon. The term superposition, borrowed in this case from the branch of mechanics of classical physics, is intended to designate the state of a set of volitional impulses in the phenomenal state represented by the members of the community and in the formalized decision of the community for participation in circulation as a legal fact-noumenon.

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Viktor А. Mayboroda

Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

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North-West Institute of Management; Doctor of Law, Associate Professor of the Department of Law

Russian Federation, 16–18, 7 Lane V. O., 199034 St. Petersburg

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