There are four kinds of sovereignty:
June 08, 2014
There are four kinds of sovereignty:
- Legal sovereignty - is the authority which has the power to issue final
commands. This is the supreme law making power.
- Political sovereignty - is the power behind the legal sovereign, or the sum
of the influences that operate upon it. This is legally unknown,
unorganized and incapable of expressing the will of the state in the form
of legal command. But it is this will that must ultimately prevail in the
State. In a narrower sense, the electorate constitutes the political
sovereign, and in a broader sense, the whole mass of population.
- Internal sovereignty - refers to the power of the State to control its
domestic affairs. It empowers the State to make and alter its system of
government, and to regulate its private affairs, as well as the rights and
relations of its citizens, without any dictation, interference, or control
on the part of any person or body or State outside the particular political
community.
- External sovereignty - is the power of the State to direct its relations
with other States. With this, the State is not subject to the control,
dictation, or government of any other power. It implies the right and
power to receive recognition as an independent power from other powers,
and to make treaties with them on equal terms, make war or peace with
them, send diplomatic agents to them, acquire territory by conquest or
occupation, and otherwise to manifest the freedom and autonomy. (Suarez,
2005) This is also known as independence.