Grotius defined the state as the entity that was influenced by the people who lived within that specific area called the state. The leaders did not have total control over all the political decisions for the populations. Grotius goes on to define the Sovereign State as the state that had gone under the influence of a part of a larger entity with the people giving their sovereign rights to the ruler or rulers. In the state individuals had control over their lives and property while the sovereign state was, in a sense, owned completely by one person who could essentially take and do whatever they saw
