'''Maiestas''' sensu [[Ius|iuridico]] seu '''suverenitas'''<ref>Ernestus Johannes Fridericus Mantzel., ''[https://books.google.es/books?id=kfBKAAAAcAAJ&pg=PT1&lpg=PT1&dq=suverenitas&source=bl&ots=rXt508oDvm&sig=ACfU3U0yQDOiGGpegcuc4lwxCaDrwyjR4g&hl=es&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjI4I20rMHuAhWLasAKHQaQCeU4ChDoATACegQIBBAC#v=onepage&q=suverenitas&f=false De suverenitate privatorum]'', ubi hoc vocabulo passim utitur.</ref> est facultas [[persona (ius)|personae]] naturalis vel iuridicae de se solus [[libertas|libere]] [[lex|legitimeque]] decernendi. In [[civilitas|civilitate]], maiestas supremam et auctoritatem politicam sui potentis<!-- =independent--> significat, quae sit [[unus|unica]] potestatis rei publicae origo. Notionem [[saeculum 16|saeculo decimo sexto]] [[Ioannes Bodinus Andegavensis|Ioannes Bodinus]] primo [[lingua Francogallica]] (''souveraineté'') formavit, qui ipse [[vox|vocem]] ''souveraineté'' postea verbo [[Lingua Latina|Latino]] ''maiestatis'' interpretatus est.<ref>Ioannes Bodin, ''De Republica Libri Sex,'' cap. de iure maiestatis [http://agora.qc.ca/Documents/Souverainete--De_la_souverainete_par_Jean_Bodin textus Francogallicus] et [http://www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/camenahist/bodin1/jpg/s0131.html versio Latina].</ref>
