[lucysmom]

No, the way it works out is freedom. Freedom under the rule of law, but a law established by those it applies to, not some bunch of "lawgivers".

Doesn't that make the law sovereign?

[El Gato]

Doesn't that make the law sovereign?

Not at all, the law, even the Constitution, can be changed by those to whom it applies. Thus they are the sovereigns.

Of course it's not really that simple, not even in England in the 17th and 18th century. By then even the English Kings and Queens were not absolute monarchs.