That the sovereign is a determinate person or body of persons. "He is not necessarily a single person: in the modern western world he is very rarely So, but he must have so much of the attributes of a single person as to be determinate 27 The State for Austin is a legal order in which there is a determinate authority acting as the ultimate source of power. Sovereignty therefore, neither resides in the general will as Rousseau conceived, nor in the mass of the people, nor in the electorate, as none of them is a determinate body. Nor has the sovereignty of God or gods any significance in the business of the State. It is concerned with man and every State must have a determinate human superior who can issue commands and create laws. Hence human laws, and not divine laws, are the proper subject of State activity.