Homo juridicus arises from the constituting power of sovereignty, its production of certain kinds of subjects, and the specification of the relation between these subjects and itself as one in which each has some rights. “Liberalism,” Foucault says, “acquired its modern shape precisely with the formulation of this essential incompatibility between the nontotalizable multiplicity of economic subjects of interest and the totalizing unity of the juridical sovereign.”

Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, loc. 169