Sovereignty or Supremacy-Where Lies Sovereignty or Supremacy

Sovereignty refers to:

1. Supreme dominion, authority or rule 
2.  Supreme political authority of an independent state 
3.  Person (e.g. Absolute Monarch), body (e.g. Parliament, national or state Assembly 
4. or supernatural entity (as in theocracy), vested with independent and supreme authority or power to make and enforce laws and demand obedience of subjects supremacy, the right or demand obedience and exercise control. 
5. One or a body who is obeyed because he is acknowledged to stand at the top, whose will must be expected to prevail, who can get own way and make others so his because such is the practice of the country. 
6.  Etymologically means merely Superiority.
7. Sovereign or sovereignty. This connotes different things. Dicey says that the Queen in council is the legal sovereign; the electorate, the political sovereign; the state, a national sovereignty and parliament, parliamentary sovereignty. Some writers for this confusion, prefer the term “Supremacy”. 

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Where Lies Sovereignty or Supremacy

Let us attempt to locate where sovereignty or supremacy resides. To do so, we have to under-take, in a nutshell, an exploration of Pre-colonial, Colonial and Modern Scheme of things.