See Individuality
Sovereignty is about knowing who "I Am".
"Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign." (J.S. Mill, On Liberty, 1859)
Sovereign individual paradigm is explained by the following U.S. Supreme Court case:
"The individual may stand upon his constitutional Rights as a citizen. He is entitled to carry on his private business in his own way. His power to contract is unlimited. He owes no such duty [to submit his books and papers for an examination] to the State, since he receives nothing therefrom, beyond the protection of his life and property. His Rights are such as existed by the law of the land [Common Law] long antecedent to the organization of the State, and can only be taken from him by due process of law, and in accordance with the Constitution. Among his Rights are a refusal to incriminate himself, and the immunity of himself and his property from arrest or seizure except under a warrant of the law. He owes nothing to the public so long as he does not trespass upon their Rights." Hale v. Henkel, 201 U.S. 43 at 47 (1905)
Sovereignty
"Sovereignty itself is, of course, not subject to law, for it is the author and source of law; but in our system, while sovereign powers are delegated to the agencies of government, sovereignty itself remains with the people, by whom and for whom all government exists and acts." – US Supreme Court Decision, Woo Lee Vs. Hopkins 118 US 356
"As sovereignty resides in individuals. The individual, and not the state, is the source and basis of our social compact and that sovereignty now resides and has always resided in the individual." Colorado Anti-Discrimination Comm'n v. Case, 151 Colo. 235, 380 P.2d 34 (1962)
Sovereignty is that public authority which has no superior, and which commands in an independent civil society, ordering and directing what each must do, to acquire its ends. It is the union of all the powers; it is the power to do any and every thing in a state, without being accountable to any one ; to make laws and execute them; to coin money; to impose and levy contributions ; to declare war, or to make peace ; to form treaties with foreign nations, etc.
Institutes of American Law, Volume 1 (1854)
John Bouvier
Pages 8-9
Schauberger
escape-less dead-end. Rigid laws and dogmas were contrived which simply do not exist in Nature, where constant change is sovereign. [The Energy Evolution - Harnessing Free Energy from Nature, The Life-Current in Air and Water]
See Also
7.5 - Successive Moments
I Am
Individuality
Law of Assimilation