SOVEREIGNTY AND INDEPENDENCE OF THE STATE: EXTENT OF ALOOFNESS AND AUTHORITY

The article considers the fundamental issues of legal theory, namely, the interrelation between sovereignty as the status and independence of the State as a quality and a property of legal reality. The specifications of legal sovereignty are compared with the specifications of such a political form of government as an absolute monarchy to which sovereignty was a determining factor and style. Authoritativeness created by sovereignty is closely connected with the problems of domination and subordination. The author analyses the concept of "the aesthetic state" born in the Renaissance and transformed during the period of sovereignty and absolute monarchy development. Such category as "an individual law" used to define sovereignty and independence of the state is of particular importance for the analysis of the problem. The intersection of legal, cultural, psychological elements allows to reveal the most important aspects of the problem. Sovereignty as a special legal status may be expressed in a collective or individual form. Sovereignty is not identical to the dictatorship, but it includes an element of domination. The dictatorship suggests the limited period of its existence and the situation of emergency, sovereignty claims to be of eternal, or at least, of continued existence. Sovereignty does not coincide with independence of the state, for the latter tend to focus on the state of freedom and self-determination, while sovereignty, always tends to hegemony. «Masks» of the sovereignty are diverse, but its essence remains indispensable. Sovereignty forms the area of integrity and requires concentration of authority in one center. For the sovereignty the institute of representation is of secondary importance for it. Political attention is focused on the uniform subject of authority. Subjectivity is the defining feature of the independence of the state. Monarchical and republican forms of government are rather amorphous forms and cannot be directly and unambiguously associated with the concept of independence of the state. With regard to the legal sphere, sovereignty, being a product of law, forms norms and institutions affecting the surrounding contexts. Sovereignty is characterized by exclusivity due to subjectivism that is inherent to sovereign rule-making. Establishing laws of the sovereign characterize both activities of individual and collective sovereigns. The history of monarchies and republics is very similar due to these properties, sovereign existence.

law, the law, sovereignty, independence of the state, authoritativeness, authority, obligation, subject, entirety, coercion, king, royal court, constitution, state of emergency, exception, autocracy, sovereign, rule of law, representation, monarchy, republic, legitimacy, legality, dictatorship, authority, subject of law, political freedom, domination, status, a law, legality, justice

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