If a determinate human superior not in a habit of obedience to a like superior receives habitual obedience from the bulk of a given society, that determinate superior is sovereign in that society; and the society (including the superior) is a society political and independent. Which of the followings said this?

A. Laski

B. Jean Bodin

C. Austin

D. Hobbes

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