Soberano. The Province of Jurisprudence ...

The Province of Jurisprudence ... - Google Book Search: "that the laws of God (whether they are revealed, or are indicated by general utility) are superior in obligation to any other laws : that no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to them : that all human laws which are valid, derive all their force, and all their authority, mediately or immediately, from those divine originals. - Page 250
Appears in 276 books from 1766-2007

or circuitously, by a sovereign individual or body, to a member or members of the independent political society wherein its author is supreme. In other words, It is set, directly or circuitously, by a monarch or sovereign number, to a person or persons in a state of subjection to its author. This - Page 336
Appears in 159 books from 1832-2007

a determinate human superior, not in a habit of obedience to a like superior, receive habitual obedience from the bulk of a given society, that determinate superior is sovereign in that society, and the society (including the superior) is a society political and independent. - Page 186
Appears in 250 books from 1832-2007"