personaldependenee and allegiance within many small groups Feudalism the antithesis of unified authority. There was open conflict betweeni horities and if anybody, under the circumstanc could claim final authority, it was the Church and not the State: Moreov or God sanctity which peoples' firm belief in the laws of natur and The of the mo attached to such laws laws retarded the growth idea of sovereignty Summing up the nature of sovereignty in the Middle Age Ward says, "The authority of Feudalism and the belief in the law of Go W made impossi the moderp idea of nature su unlimited and indivisible sovereignty of the State over all citizens