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sovereign<\/span>:<\/span><\/strong>
\nadj<\/em>. (17c)<\/span><\/p>\n

1. (Of a state) characteristic of or endowed with supreme authority<\/strong> <sovereign nation> <sovereign immunity>.<\/span><\/p>\n

sovereign<\/span>:<\/span><\/strong>
\nn<\/em>. (13c)<\/span><\/p>\n

l. A person, body, or state vested with independent and supreme authority.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

2. The ruler of an independent state.<\/strong> \u2014 Also spelled sovran<\/em><\/strong><\/span>. See sovaad EIGNTY.<\/span><\/p>\n

sovereign equality<\/span>:<\/strong><\/span>
\n(1894)<\/span><\/p>\n

1.<\/strong> Int\u2019l law<\/em>. The principle that countries have the right to enjoy territorial integrity and political independence, free from intervention by other countries,.\u00a0 *\u00a0 The United Nations \u201cis based on the prin<\/span><\/strong><\/span>ciple of the sovereign equality of all its Members.\u201d<\/strong> UN Charter art. 2, 5 1.<\/span><\/p>\n

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sovereign immunity. See IMMUNITY (1).<\/span><\/p>\n

sovereign people<\/span>:<\/span><\/strong>
\n(17c)<\/span><\/p>\n

1. The political body consisting of the collective number of citizens and qualified electors who possess the powers of sovereignty and exercise them through their chosen representatives.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

sovereign political power. See POLITICAL POWER.<\/span><\/p>\n

sovereign power<\/span>:<\/strong><\/span>
\n(15C)<\/span><\/p>\n

1. The power to make and enforce laws.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

2. See sovereign political power under POLITICAL\u00a0<\/span>POWER.<\/span><\/p>\n

sovereign right<\/span>:<\/strong><\/span>
\n(16c)<\/span><\/p>\n

1. A unique right possessed by a state or its agencies that enables it to carry out its official functions\u00a0<\/span>for the public benefit, as distinguished from certain proprietary rights that it may possess like any other private\u00a0<\/span>person.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

sovereign state<\/span>:<\/span><\/strong>
\n(17c)<\/span><\/p>\n

l. A state that possesses an independent existence, being complete in itself, without being merely part of a larger whole to whose government it is subject. <\/span><\/p>\n

2. A political community whose members are bound together by the tie of common subjection to some central authority, whose commands those members must obey. \u2014 aka independent state<\/span><\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“nnsovereign state under STATE (1). [1]<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe essence. of statehood is sovereignty, the principle that each nation answers only to its own domestic order and is not accountable to a larger international community,\u00a0<\/span>save only to the extent it has consented to do so. Sovereign states are thus conceived as hermetically sealed units; atoms that spin around an international orbit, sometimes\u00a0<\/span>colliding, sometimes cooperating, but always separate and\u00a0<\/span>apart.\u201d [2]<\/span><\/p>\n

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b part-sovereign state. (1895) A political community in which part of the powers of external sovereignty are exercised by the home government, and part are vested in or controlled by some other political body or bodies. 0 Such a state is not fully independent because by the conditions of its existence it is not allowed full freedom of action in external affairs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Definition of SOVEREIGNTY:<\/span>
\n\u201cSupreme dominion, authority, or rule.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe principle of legal sovereignty is an abstraction<\/span>
\nfrom a number of relevant rules:<\/span>
\n1.) without consent, a subject of international law is bound by<\/span>
\napplicable rules of universal or general international<\/span>
\ncustomary law & general principles of laaw recognized by<\/span>
\ncivilized nations.<\/span>
\n2.) Additional international obligations may be imposed on<\/span>
\nany subject of international law only with its consent.<\/span>
\n3.) Unless the territorial jurisdiction of a State is excluded or<\/span>
\nlimited by rules of international law, its exercise is exclusively<\/span>
\nthe concern of a State in question.<\/span>
\n4.) Subjects of international law may claim potential<\/span>
\njurisdiction over persons or things outside the territorial<\/span>
\njurisdiction. In the absence of permissive rules to the contrary,<\/span>
\nhowever, they may actually exercise such jurisdiction in<\/span>
\nconcrete instances only within their territories.<\/span>
\n5.) Unless authorized by permissive rules to the contrary,<\/span>
\nintervention by subjects or international law in another’s<\/span>
\nsphere of exclusive domestic jurisdiction constitutes a breach of<\/span>
\ninternational law.\u201d<\/span>
\n\u2013 George Schwarzenberger, A manual of International Law<\/span>
\n65 (5th Ed. 1967)9<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFor the practical purposes of an international lawyer, sov<\/span><\/p>\n

ereignty is not a metaphysical concept, nor is it part of the essence of statehood; it is merely a term which designates<\/span><\/p>\n

an aggregate of particular and very extensive claims that states habitually make for themselves in their relations with other states. To the extent that sovereignty has come to imply that there is something inherent in the nature of states that makes it impossible for them to be subjected to law,\u00a0it is a false doctrine which the facts of international relations do not support. But to the extent that it reminds us that the challenge of subjection of states to law is an aim as YGt Only very imperfectly realized, it is a doctrine which we cannot afford to disregard.\u201d Andrew Clapham, Brierly\u2019s Law of Nations: An Introduction to the Role of International<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Law in International Relations 46 (7th ed. 2012).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn origins and evolution, sovereignty is definitely a Western concept, and it was not shared by other regions until the twentieth century. (Certain non-Western parallels do exist, however.) In contemporary discussion, the concept of sovereignty is accepted as an indispensable term in both academic and diplomatic discussions of political life throughout the world. Its importance is confirmed in Marxist, realist, and liberal political discourse, but the range of usage varies widely, reflecting differences in ideology and political priorities. The very centrality of sovereignty ensures its contested character. In each setting, meanings are attributed to sovereignty that accord with the interpreter\u2019s project. There is little neutral ground when it comes to sovereignty.\u201d Richard Falk, \u201cSovereignty,\u201d in 2 The Oxford Companion to Comparative Politics 398, 398 (Joel Krieger ed., 2013).<\/span><\/p>\n

> external sovereignty. (18c) The power of dealing on a country\u2019s behalf with other national governments.<\/span><\/p>\n

> internal sovereignty. (18c) The power enjoyed by a governmental entity of a sovereign state, including affairs within its own territory and powers related to the exercise of external sovereignty.<\/span><\/p>\n

x \\\u2019\/_)<\/span><\/p>\n

popular sovereignty. (17c) A system of government in which policy choices reflect the preferences of the majority of citizens.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPopular sovereignty, at bottom, is an identification, contrary to fact, of t e government and the peeple. i ow \u2018We the people\u2019 do not govern ourselves; we have estab lished a government to do it, and it does it. if the peep e<\/span><\/p>\n

really governed, it would, of course, be both absurd a d impossible to try to limit governmental action by any law. The notion that our government is the people, therefornaturally leads to the conclusion that the government has no limits. The logic is sotmd, the premise is utterly untrue. This unwarranted belief, necessarily destructive of a l co stitutionalism and of all bills of rights, has been fostered by a strange unhistorical conception of \u2018sovereignty.\u2019 We are only able to accept \u2018popular\u2019 sovereignty, because of our peculiar notions of what sovereignty itself is. Blind fo lowers of the blind have persuaded us -mostly lawyers who have taken Blackstone literally and uncritically -that sovereignty is might, not right, and that this might could not conceivably be the might of any true sovereign if it had any legal limits whatsoever. These men have hopelessly confused authority with power, and apparently have been entirely oblivious of the fact that their conception of political supremacy, fathered by Hobbes and nurtured by John Austin, is completely subversive of the constitutional system under which we all live and to which they themselves have usually paid the most extravagant lip service.\u201d C.H. Mcilwain, Constitutionalism & the Changing World 291-92 (1939). \u2018<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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b state sovereignty. See STATE SOYEREIGNTY.<\/span><\/p>\n

2. The supreme political authority of an independent state. 3. The state itself.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cit is well to [distinguish] the senses in which the word Sovereignty is used. In the ordinary popular sense it means Supremacy, the right to demand obedience. Although the idea of actual power is not absent, the prominent idea is that of some sort of title to exercise control. An ordinary layman would call that person (or body of persons) Sovereign in a State who is obeyed because he is acknowledged to stand at the top, whose will must be expected to prevail, who can get his own way, and make others go his, because such is the practice of the country. Etymologically the word of course means merely superiority, and familiar usage applies it in monarchies to the monarch, because he stands first in the State, be his real power great or small.\u201d James<\/span><\/p>\n

Bryce, Studies in History and Jurisprudence 504-05 (1901). sovereign wealth fund. See FUND.<\/span><\/p>\n

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[1]: Black’s Law Dictionary <\/a><\/span><\/strong>Deluxe Tenth Edition<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em> by Henry Campbell Black, Editor in Chief Bryan A. Garner. ISBN: 978-0-314-61300-4<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[2]:\u00a0David J. Bederman, International Law Frameworks<\/em><\/a> 50 (2001).<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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