Standing as residual sovereignty is the residual capacity to remain upright as one's own law after every collective sovereignty of higher order has been dissolved. The residual man continues to stand according to the permanent measure even though the age offers no confirming authority. The sovereignty itself remains intact. Only the collective forms that once made its presence public have disappeared.
Young men who still seek a firm position often look for residual authorities or residual hierarchies that will supply the sovereignty from outside. Most of those hierarchies have already been reshaped by the horizontal forces that dominate the age. The residual path does not wait for external authority. It continues as the permanent standing from the interior center that still holds the vertical measure.
This solitary sovereignty is the residual form of the older traditional knowledge of the king within. The man who continues to stand as his own law already performs the residual act. That act does not require collective forms to remain real.
Stand as sovereignty. Do not wait for the age to restore conditions in which higher rank is publicly structured. The residual act is to keep the permanent measure decisive in every concrete decision. That decisiveness is the continuity of the higher type under residual conditions.