Supreme power

The supreme power has the following main features arising from its principal content and state significance:

• Unity (indivisibility) . “State power is always one and, in essence, cannot allow other such authorities to compete with the same persons in the same territory ^[1] .” The principle of separation of powers applies to state bodies subordinate to the supreme power, which delegates to them the appropriate powers (legislative, executive, judicial, etc.).
• Unlimited The legal subordination of the supreme power carrier to any external force (another state, supra-state entity) means the transfer of the supreme power to this force.
• Completeness . In the state there is no power beyond the control of the Supreme.
• Constancy and continuity . The cessation of the existence of supreme power is tantamount to the disappearance of the state itself (the loss of their independence).

The bearer of sovereign power is called sovereign . Depending on its nature, three historical types of supreme power are distinguished (first identified by Aristotle ):

• Monarchical - the supreme power is concentrated in the hands of one person.
• Aristocratic - the supreme power belongs to the nobility .
• Democratic - supreme power belongs to the people .

All existing and existing forms of states can be assigned to one of the listed types.

Currently, most countries have a democratic supreme power (including in countries with a constitutional monarchy ).

Changing the type of supreme power is possible not through evolution, but only in a revolutionary way - through the elimination of the old state system and the establishment of a new one.

• Sovereignty

1. ↑ Shershenevich GF General Theory of Law. Volume 1, Moscow, 1910

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