personal dependente and allegiance within many small groups FeudalismA the antithesis of unified authority. There was opem conflict between Spirtuat and Temporal fauthorities and if anybody, under the circumstan could claim final authority, it was the Church and not the State: Moreoy peoples' firm belief in the laws of natur or God and the sanctity which attached to such laws over man-made laws retarded the growth of the mo idea of sovereignty Summing up the nature of sovereignty in the Middle Age X Ward says, "The authority of Feudalism and the belief in the law of God' nature su to he numan maw made e the modern idea ofe unlimited and indivisible sovereignty of the State over all citizens.