Titular Sovereignty. Since the term sovereignty is used in different contexts , titular sovereignty is one of them. The origin of titular sovereignty goes back to the seventeenth century immediately after the emergence of the nation-state. the nation-state were headed by absolute monarchies and the kings personified the sovereignty of the state. there was soon a conflict between the kings and their people. The people challenged the absolute and unlimited authority of the kings and demanded their own rights and privileges. they claimed that power was ultimately theirs and that the kings exercised limited authority delegated to them on their behalf. The kings, on their own part, found refuge in the divine origin theory and Divine Right of kings, and claimed divine privileges, freeing themselves from all human limitations. The people ultimately triumphed and democracy, with its representative institutions, came to be established in one form or another. The powers of the king were limited in his position as head of the state, but in all matters of administration he was compelled to seek the advice and consent of the representatives of the people. The representatives guided him in choosing and dismissing his ministers, in raising his revenues, and in almost every act of his government. This was the advent of constitutional government. The king remained only a symbol of authority, a legacy of the past. He personified the sovereignty of the state and in terms of law all authority belonged to him. But actual sovereignty rested somewhere else and the monarch simply exercised personal influence in the exercise of that authority. Influence is not authority and can be least sovereignty .