What is the relationship between law and government? How does it evolve? What are some of the influences upon this relationship? These are QUESTIONS which have taxed theoreticians from a number of disciplines for many centuries. This section will not presume to attempt to answer these questions, but rather, it will consider some aspects of the relationship, particularly as they affect business and technology. An understanding of the regulatory role of the state must be built upon a conceptual and functional analysis of sovereignty, which is the organizing and political principle that national ECONOMIC policy-making and regulation, as well as international economic co-ordination, is based.1 Proper appreciation of the INTERNAL dimension of sovereignty requires an understanding of the relationship between the state and the society it governs.2 As Lawrence Tshuma has emphasised in Hierarchies and Government VERSUS Networks and Governance: Competing Regulatory Paradigms in Global Economic Regulation, the relationship between the state and civil society is historically specific and the manner in which sovereign power is exercised is shaped by the configuration Explanation:pls mark as brainlist