Sovereignty, in political theory, the ultimate overseer, or authority, in the decision-making process of the state. Although the term was originally understood to mean the equivalent of supreme power, its application in practice often has departed from this traditional meaning.
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Students of political science trace the concept of “sovereignty” back to a Frenchman by the name of Jean Bodin. Bodin was himself a politician, as well as a thinker and jurist. He lived in the sixteenth century, before the “Social Contract” school of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.