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Sovereignty
whether residing in a single individual or a number of individuals, or in the whole body of the people. Sovereignty according to its normal legal connotation is the supreme power which govern the body politic, or society … state and the power is independent of the particular form of government whether monarchial, autocratic or democratic, Govindrao v. State of Madhya Pradesh, AIR 1982 SC 1201. Means the Supreme, absolute and uncontrollable power by which any … examined by a statement of the form given to it by John Austin. In every legal analysis of the State, he argued, it is first
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It must keep time with the heartbeats of the society and with the needs and aspirations of the people, Central Inland Water Transport Corporation Ltd. v. Brojo Nath Ganguly, AIR 1986 SC 1571: (1986) 3 SCC 156. … make their conduct conformable. A command, enforced by some sanction, to acts or forbearances of a class: see Austin's Jurisprudence; 1 Bl. Com. 38. A principle of conduct may be observed habitually by an individual or a
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