Sovereignty Theories | Muchamad Ali Safa'at

SOVEREIGNTY

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Sovereignty
Souvereiniteit
Souverainite
Superanus
supremasi

Sovereignty Concept
• The highest power
• The Authority as sources of the law and action
• Above the law
“ The Quality of having supreme (ultimate) independent
authority over a territory”

THE SHIFT OF SOVEREIGNTY
• Over Individual.
• Over Certain Place (national state).
• From Individual holder to people
(community) holder).
• From Defendability to Recognition
(UN Resolution, SC Veto).

JEAN BODIN
• Souveregnty is manifested in the
hand of king.
• King responsible to the God
• Pricipus legibus solutus  The
supreme legislator.
• King is the shadow of the God. (le
Prince est l’image de Dieu)
• Absolut Souverignty.

MONISTIC THEORY

• Permanence  as long as state exist
• Indivisible  wholleness
• Supreme  every power do not obey
the Sovereignty is the sovereignty
• Unlimited  if there is limitation, so
the limitation is the sovereignty
• Complete  no exception

CRITICS
• Pluralism
• Social Contract
• Internal Sovereignty

Classification
• Internal Sovereignty
• External Sovereignty – Independence
• De Facto Sovereignty
• De Jure Sovereignty

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Every state has Sovereignty
Unlimited and undivided
In the hand of certain people
The Order of the Sovereignty is Law

Critics:
– Human rights, civil society
– Division of powers

Sovereignty Theories
• The Sources of Sovereignty
• Who hold/has the Sovereignty?
– God Sovereignty
– People Sovereignty
– State Sovereignty

– Law Sovereignty