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This article aims to make clear the reasons of the absence of “the sovereign” in the contemporary theory of sovereignty. This article sheds light on the ontology of the sovereign which has been composed in current political theory such as Negri=Hardt and Laclau in order to reveal conceptual features of the sovereign. This article argues that the concept of the sovereign contains the political instance which provides the concrete meanings of the sovereign and, therefore, is changeable through public processes. Section 1 analyzes some of typical theories of sovereignty and refers to a common feature that the theory of the sovereign is absent. Section 2 confirms that there is a gap between the universal people and the particular nation in terms of the sovereign's existence. Then, Section 3 considers the conceptual relationship between politics and the sovereign. “The sovereign” is not theoretically required because it is provided by real politics.
