Abstract

Globalization and economic imperialism have produced a crisis of national sovereignty, replacing rigid and solid concepts of the state and of a community of states with the open and flexible notion of global governance, a «liquid sovereignty», which has become evident during the COVID emergency. This process did not mean the end of sovereignty, but rather a multiplication and interreference of sovereignties, in the sense that the seats of political choice have multiplied and shattered and the exercise of power has been overturned. Some regulatory instruments have mixed sanctioning systems with references to autonomy of choice and therefore to individual responsibility. This shows that the common good is not an abstraction: the encounter between the descending path of power and the ascending path of the community is fixed at a point where political decisions and legal norms intersect the self-discipline strength of men. Public safety depends on this intersection.