Sovereignty, from the Latin "superanus" which means, "super" above, more and "anus", which is a suffix that denotes belonging, relationship and origin, that is to say then that sovereignty refers to a person who has authority over another.
Sovereignty is the quality that a person with authority possesses. Sovereignty represents a faculty of command, power and control that a person or entity possesses over a system of government, territory or a population. This concept can have two points of view, an internal one in which sovereignty is associated with a power of a certain state or person over its territory or population, and in the external aspect refers to the independence of the power exercised by a state or person in others.
This concept originates in the Middle Ages, through the struggle of three existing powers such as the Church which tried to subordinate the state, the Roman Empire who did not want to recognize other states as equals and the great figureheads of the time who felt powerful and independent of the state.
There are various types of sovereignty among which we find:
National sovereignty is the power that the state has over its territory where no one is superior to it, that is, national sovereignty allows a country to be an independent and inviolable territory.
Popular sovereignty or also known as the sovereignty of the people, is one that is established only in the people, this indicates that citizens are those who make up the public powers, which can be exercised by a representative or directly.
Although the people do not govern directly, they have the right to participate in some way in government, in the sense that citizens express their will in the election of national, regional or municipal authorities by means of suffrage.
Food sovereignty is the right or capacity that each nation has when establishing its own agricultural and food policies. The objective of this sovereignty is to develop the various products, and guarantee the food security of the nation.
