Sovereignty, Power or Authority?

... Even to this late date and with the term, "like so many other words in our political lexicon ", what then is Sovereignty? Sovereignty, strictly, is the locus of ultimate legitimate authority in a political society, once the Prince or "the Crown," later parliament or the people. In my essay, I will discuss the origins of Sovereignty, the different types of Sovereignty, Sovereignty's future. Sovereignty is the quality of having supreme, independent authority over a territory. It can be found in a power to rule and make law that rests on a political fact for which no purely legal explanation can be provided. The idea of Sovereignty is ever-changing throughout history. During the Classical period, the Roman Jurist Ulpian observed that, the imperium of the people is transferred to the Emperor, the Emperor is not bound by the law and the Emperor's word is law. In the late 1550s,

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