Sovereign power (n.) is a form of power concerned with the state's power over territory (or land), whereas disciplinary power is concerned primarily with the body, namely, with breaking a multiplicity of men into individual bodies. Biopolitics, then, is addressed to a multiplicity of men (or population).
Sovereign power (n.) is concerned with obedience to the law of the king or central authority figure.
Sovereign power (n.) is concerned with the state's absolute power over its territory. It was 'exercised over land and the produce of the land, much more so than over bodies and what they do.
Sovereign power (n.) is founded in a fundamental biopolitical fracture, a distinction between zoe and bios, between people and the people.
Sovereign power (n.) is not linked to right-holders but to 'bare life'.
Sovereign power (n.) is not so much about re-establishing balance to bring into play, at its most extreme point, the dissymmetry between the subject who has dared to violate the law and the all-powerful sovereign who displays his strength.
Sovereign power (n.) is power which is possessed and then wielded repressively by one individual over another or others, which became ineffective in the face of increasingly com plex social, political and economic relations that developed in the latter part of the sixteenth and early part of the seventeenth centuries.
Sovereign power (n.) is power wielded repressively by one individual over another (or others). In the modern era, sovereign power wanes and takes on a more complex form (i.e. It becomes disciplinary).
Sovereign power (n.) is the predominant structure of Western power from the Middle Ages to the 16th century.