here are four kinds of sovereignty:

1. Legal sovereignty - is the authority which has the power to issue final commands. This is
the supreme law making power.
2. Political sovereignty - is the power behind the legal sovereign, or the sum of the
influences that operate upon it. This is legally unknown, unorganized and incapable of expressing
the will of the state in the form of legal command. But it is this will that must ultimately prevail in
the State. In a narrower sense, the electorate constitutes the political sovereign, and in a broader
sense, the whole mass of population.
3. Internal sovereignty - refers to the power of the State to control its domestic affairs. It
empowers the State to make and alter its system of government, and to regulate its private
affairs, as well as the rights and relations of its citizens, without any dictation, interference, or
control on the part of any person or body or State outside the particular political community.
4. External sovereignty - is the power of the State to direct its relations with other States.
With this, the State is not subject to the control, dictation, or government of any other power. It
implies the right and power to receive recognition as an independent power from other powers,
and to make treaties with them on equal terms, make war or peace with them, send diplomatic
agents to them, acquire territory by conquest or occupation, and otherwise to manifest the
freedom and autonomy. (Suarez, 2005) This is also known as independence.