Establishment of sovereignty as a legal institute

This article aims to analyze the concept of sovereignty, its legal nature and its emergence as a legal category. The article is based on the norms of international law and national legislation on the concept of sovereignty. The analysis of the article refers to the scientific work of national and foreign scientists, their theoretical views. A number of proposals and recommendations have been developed based on normative legal acts and theories of scientists. The Westphalian Peace Treaty recognized the sovereignty of states over their territory. It was from this period that a number of thinkers of their time began to lay the scientific foundations for the consolidation of monarchical power and made a great contribution to the establishment of secular power. The content of sovereignty consists of socio-political and legal relations. These relations demonstrate the strong connection and interdependence of sovereignty with politics and law, as their interrelationships constitute the essence of both politics and law. The practice of international recognition (legitimization) of states or governments is evolving as opposed to the content of national state sovereignty. State sovereignty is formed on the basis of the absolute internal political processes of the state and is limited to the territory of the respective state.