Territorial sovereignty
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territorial sovereignty · sovereignty is territorial
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Ancient Law
The conception that sovereignty is bound to dominion over a defined territory, as opposed to personal rule over a people.
It is resolvable into the double proposition that “sovereignty is territorial,” i.
Territorial sovereignty—the view which connects sovereignty with the possession of a limited portion of the earth’s surface—was distinctly an offshoot, though a tardy one, of feudalism.
It is a consideration well worthy to be kept in view, that during a large part of what we usually term modern history no such conception was entertained as that of “territorial sovereignty.
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Modern principle that political community derives from shared territory rather than shared blood.
The modern reason for holding together in social union, that you and your neighbours belong to the same territorial sovereignty, is new and even monstrous in Rajputana and the countries under its influence.