Multiple choice

Who among the following was the chief exponent of the legal theory of sovereignty?

  1. Bodin

  2. Locke

  3. Rousseau

  4. Austin

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Explanation

John Austin is the most prominent exponent of the legal or monistic theory of sovereignty, defining it as the power of a determinate human superior who receives habitual obedience. Bodin and Hobbes contributed, but Austin's formulation is the definitive 'legal' version.