Write short notes on general will

Sovereignty (from superanus — "above all") is the supreme, final and unlimited authority of the state: within its territory no equal, above it no superior. It is what turns an organised community into a state — "the soul of the state" (the classical tag), the element without which the rest is a province.Classic definitions:1. Jean Bodin (1576, Six Books of the Republic — the modern inventor of the concept): sovereignty is "the absolute and perpetual power of a commonwealth" — the power to give law without consent of subjects.2. Thomas Hobbes (Leviathan, 1651): the sovereign (the "mortal god") created by covenant, absolute and indivisible — because divided sovereignty means civil war.3. John Austin (1832): the sovereign is "a determinate human superior, not in the habit of obedience to a like superior, receiving habitual obedience from the bulk of a given society" — and law is its command (Legal Method, Unit 1).4. A.V. Dicey: the power to make any law whatever (in England: Parliament).5. Rousseau: sovereignty resides in the people — the general will; it is inalienable, indivisible, and cannot be represented.