II. Sovereignty in Relation to Foreign States

Sovereignty in the internal sphere (§ 278) is this ideality insofar as the moments of spirit and of its actuality, the state, are developed in their necessity and subsist as members of it. But spirit, as in freedom an infinitely negative relation to itself, is just as essentially being-for-itself, which has taken up into itself the subsisting difference and is thereby exclusive. In this determination, the state has individuality, which exists essentially as an individual and, in the sovereign, as an actual, immediate individual (§ 279).