Sovereignty exploring the abstract nature of sovereignty and have, as Bryce remarks, rengaged in barren discussions dragging us through a dusty desert of words rather than of substance." Others have frequently done so, as MacIver says th an ulterior motive''to get a speculative basis for a practical propaganda ere is a second confusion between legal theory and political practices The l y of sovereignty vests ultimate legal power in some definite person or body of persons. Tie authority of the sovereign is supreme and it possesses the power to enforde obedience to its will. But where is that ultimate Aauthority to be found? Ther s not one single answer to this question. Not only does it vary from country t country, but it will not be always the same in the ame country. In Britain, Parliament is sovereign and what it enacts is law. An Act of Parliamentcan HHeHtrastitomimarmy court of Harw or can e law exists in Britain ligher than that made by it be declared invalid Parliament. B recent Act of Parliament takes a precedencc over alesSTecent es any earlier statutory pr inconsistent with it. In the United States, Congiess is not sovereign, It is a delegated agency an its ack can be pronounced constitutional by the Supreme CourttIt is the Constitu here and the sovereign power is exercised the on which is supr ConstimumonGIrending authority. In a totalitarian State sovereignty will belong xecutive since bpth legislative and judicial powers are subservient to Hitter retained the Reichstag as a subservient organ whose function was merely to record a forma, approval of Nazi policy. And no Court in Germany ould question the legali of the policy endorsed by the Reichstag The legal sovere in all democracies, must ultimately bow to the olitical sovereign. But what is this political sovereignty and where is such a