23. Sabine, G.H., A History of Political Thought, p. 654. 24 24. Austin says Every positive law, or every law, simply and strictly so palled, is set by a sovcreign person or a sovereign body of persons to member or members of the independent political society wherein that person or body of persons is sovereign or supreme 25. Austin then proceeds: "To that determinate superior the other members of the society arc dependent. The position of its other members towards that determinate superior is a state of subjection or a state of dependence. The mutual relation which subsists between that superior and them may be styled the relation of sovereign and subject. or the relation of sovereignty and subjectivity.'' 26. Maine, H., The Early History of Institutions, p. 339 27. Ibid., p. 351