Nor can we take political sovereignty synonymous with the mass of the people. Quite a sizable number of the people are usually apathetic about politics. They do not want to govern themselves and would not know how to do so even if they wanted to. Then,all the people do not enjoy the right to vote. Those who do not enjoy this right can neither participate in the election of their representatives nor have they any constitutional means at their disposal to effectively influence the decisions of the legal sovereign. It is also possible that the masses may be under the influence of either the priestly class or landed aristocracy, or the militarsts. Even if it is not, in the best of democracies, where the people believe that they govern themselves, it can still be suggested that real power gravitates (or ascends) to a small elite. It is, therefore, not the mass of the people which constitute the political sovereign. It really rests in that class of people under whose influence they actually are.