There 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