1. SOVEREIGNTY The principle of absolute and unlimited power
Legal Sovereignty: supreme legal authority; that is, an unchallengeable right to demand compliance, as defined by law.
Political Sovereignty: unlimited political power

2. Sovereignty…
External sovereignty: state’s place in the international order and its capacity to act as an independent and autonomous entity (national sovereignty, or sovereign state)
Internal Sovereignty: the notion of a supreme power /authority within the state, located in the body that makes decisions that are binding on all citizens, groups and institutions within the state’s territorial boundries.

3. Sovereignty..
Hobbes: Sovereignty as a justification for monarchical absolutism.
Bodin: Sovereign monarch was constrained by the will of God.
Rousseau: Popular sovereignty expressed in the idea of “general will”
All thinkers believed that sovereignty should be located in a determinated body