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    Sovereignty

    idea · 6 works · 16 mentions · 39 anchored passages

    sovereignty · sovereign power · supremacy · Sovereign · despotism · dominion · rights of sovereignty · spherical sovereignty · supreme power · territorial sovereignty

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    Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated19th Century · English

    The contested political term for supreme, unlimited governmental power, which the author argues was deliberately excluded from American constitutions.

    Sovereignty is neither fiduciary nor capable of limitation.
    chapter 5
    I do not know how it has happened, that this word has crept into our political dialect, unless it be that mankind prefer mystery to knowledge;
    chapter 5
    Neither the declaration of independence, nor the federal constitution, nor the constitution of any single state, uses this equivocal and illimitable word.
    chapter 5

    Lectures on the Early History of Institutions19th Century · English

    The central legal-philosophical concept of the lecture: the determinate human superior receiving habitual obedience within an independent political society.

    A further characteristic of Sovereignty is immunity from the control of every other human superior.
    lecture xii sovereignty
    The definitions which I read from the Sixth Lecture furnish Austin’s tests for discovering the seat of Sovereignty in independent states.
    lecture xii sovereignty
    The mutual relation which subsists between that superior and them, may be styled the relation of Sovereign and Subject, or the relation of Sovereignty and Subjection.
    lecture xii sovereignty

    The Rights of War and PeaceRenaissance · English

    The concept of supreme political authority discussed and later critiqued in Grotius's doctrine.

    In the First Book, he considers whether any war is just, which leads to the distinction between public and private war, and this in turn to a discussion of the nature and embodiment of sovereignty.
    iv the work of grotius
    If he identifies sovereignty with supreme power without any adequate conception of its ethical basis, he is at least as advanced in his thinking as the conceptions of his time, which had not yet grasped the idea of the state as a moral organism.
    iv the work of grotius
    and therefore in an elective government, if the king or the royal family should become extinct, the rights of sovereignty, as it has been already shewn, would revert to the people.
    chapter 15

    The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)Renaissance · English

    The legal concept of rightful dominion over territory, examined at length to determine who legitimately holds it in the East Indies.

    For it is not a donation that makes a sovereign, it is the consequent delivery of a thing and the subsequent possession thereof.
    chapter 21
    But even if this title could be justified, it would not serve to establish sovereignty, except by right of conquest, that is to say, occupation would be a prerequisite.
    chapter 22
    However, natural reason itself, the precise words of the law, and the interpretation of the more learned men all show clearly that the act of discovery is sufficient to give a clear title of sovereignty only when it is accompanied by actual possession.
    chapter 20

    The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–166019th Century · English

    The ultimate authority to govern the state, contested between King and Parliament as the crisis escalates toward civil war.

    Later on there is the gradual awakening of a part of the nation to the truth that it is impossible to carry out the new system in combination with Charles, and this leads to the putting forth by Parliament of a claim to sovereignty really incompatible with Kingship.
    iii from the meeting of the long parliament to the
    They would simply have established government by persons appointed by Parliament in lieu of government by the King, and they may therefore be taken as definitely marking the acceptance by the majority of the House of Commons of the idea that the King’s sovereignty must not merely be weakened but practically set aside (see p.
    iii from the meeting of the long parliament to the

    Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John20th Century · English

    Sovereignty, or supreme power in the state, discussed as the constitutional principle threatened by the split authority created under chapter 61.

    No King would submit tamely to remain a sovereign, whose “sovereignty” existed on sufferance of his enemies.
    iv modern criticism
    If it had been possible to put so violent an expedient into practice, the “sovereignty,” or supreme power in England, would have been split into two.
    i the security or legal sanction