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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sovereignty
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
economic
▪ The economic sovereignty which Mrs Thatcher claims to defend is a chimera.
▪ However, there is a fundamental difference between pooling sovereignty on trade and agriculture and pooling economic sovereignty.
full
▪ We are on our way to full sovereignty, and there is no turning back.
▪ Not all of them enjoyed full sovereignty nor were very united or coherent in structure.
legal
▪ In short, the Declaration of Rights can be said to have confirmed the legal sovereignty of Parliament.
▪ Dicey's insistence on distinguishing legal from political sovereignty entails an equivalent separation of law and convention.
▪ In this sense, the legal doctrine of sovereignty is the most fundamental of our constitutional conventions.
▪ Dicey presents conventions as a means of harmonising legal and political sovereignty, which remain conceptually distinct.
▪ First, there is legal sovereignty - the legal right to do as we please.
national
▪ Such interdependency demands certain limitations in national sovereignty.
▪ Any effective international regulation of nuclear weapons is bound to entail troublesome incursions challenging prerogatives of national sovereignty.
▪ We in Britain seem to be deeply attached to the idea of national sovereignty.
▪ However, the national monetary sovereignty identified with an exchange rate union is illusory rather than real.
▪ There are tricky issues of national sovereignty and private / public relationships but they are not insoluble.
▪ In addition there are some specific features often of great importance, such as the release of long suppressed aspirations for national sovereignty.
▪ Or it could lead to higher unemployment, failing businesses and a loss of national sovereignty.
parliamentary
▪ It should not be seen as a restriction on parliamentary sovereignty.
▪ The threat which this arrangement poses to the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty is obvious.
▪ The passion with which the mythology of parliamentary sovereignty is defended ... baffles Paris and Bonn.
▪ The idea of the separation of powers also seems to influence Dicey's belief that Parliamentary sovereignty favours the supremacy of law.
▪ The doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty was illegitimate, if not incomprehensible, to Rousseau.
▪ Neither distinction can be sustained when the courts are required to determine the limits of parliamentary sovereignty.
▪ By virtue of the concept of parliamentary sovereignty, the act would be definitive.
▪ It precedence derives from the concept of parliamentary sovereignty.
political
▪ Finance is again king, cemented by romanticism about retaining political sovereignty over the pound and laced with not a little xenophobia.
▪ Dicey's insistence on distinguishing legal from political sovereignty entails an equivalent separation of law and convention.
▪ Dicey presents conventions as a means of harmonising legal and political sovereignty, which remain conceptually distinct.
popular
▪ Here, then, at the opening of the modern era, we have a quite well developed doctrine of popular sovereignty.
▪ Basically their nationalism was an ideology closely bound up with the idea of popular sovereignty.
▪ This is not to say, however, that popular sovereignty requires a nation state.
▪ Against this background, the muzzling of 16 reformist newspapers can only be seen as an assault on popular sovereignty.
▪ For they sought to replace tradition by consent and dynastic rule by popular sovereignty.
▪ But the language of popular sovereignty is by its nature universalist.
▪ The principle of popular sovereignty has never been accepted in Britain: instead sovereignty is shared between Parliament and an hereditary monarch.
▪ And this leads to the last and perhaps greatest check on popular sovereignty in the age of Pericles, namely Pericles himself.
■ NOUN
consumer
▪ These adjustments, incidentally, portray the concept of consumer sovereignty at work.
▪ It is the force which subjects producers and resource suppliers to the dictates of buyer or consumer sovereignty.
state
▪ Previously its goal had been state sovereignty within a reformed Soviet Union.
■ VERB
claim
▪ It certainly takes us away from the notion of a centre of power claiming alleged sovereignty over supposedly homogeneous territory.
infringe
▪ It was made clear that the treaty did not infringe the rights and sovereignty of individual Soviet republics.
lose
▪ When petrochemicals are privatized, we are going to lose sovereignty.
restore
▪ They called for a negotiated settlement restoring the republic's sovereignty and territorial integrity.
share
▪ It was the first time that 11 nations had agreed to share their monetary sovereignty.
surrender
▪ Not surprisingly, those who are averse to surrendering their sovereignty have become increasingly restive of late.
▪ Wouldn't it mean surrendering sovereignty?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ the sovereignty of God
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It should not be seen as a restriction on parliamentary sovereignty.
▪ People talk about the great sanctity of the sovereignty of Parliament.
▪ The latter is not an open invitation to intervention or a threat to sovereignty.
▪ The referendum was reported as recording an 87.01 percent turnout and 99.87 percent approval for sovereignty for Kosovo.
▪ There is the sovereignty of the majority party and its Whips.
▪ When it comes to interest rates, we would in some ways get more sovereignty.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sovereignty

Sovereignty \Sov"er*eign*ty\, n.; pl. Sovereignties. [OE. soverainetee, OF. sovrainet['e], F. souverainet['e].] The quality or state of being sovereign, or of being a sovereign; the exercise of, or right to exercise, supreme power; dominion; sway; supremacy; independence; also, that which is sovereign; a sovereign state; as, Italy was formerly divided into many sovereignties.

Woman desiren to have sovereignty As well over their husband as over their love.
--Chaucer.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sovereignty

mid-14c., "pre-eminence," from Anglo-French sovereynete, Old French souverainete, from soverain (see sovereign (adj.)). Meaning "authority, rule, supremacy of power or rank" is recorded from late 14c.; sense of "existence as an independent state" is from 1715.

Wiktionary
sovereignty

n. 1 (context of a polity English) The state of making laws and controlling resources without the coercion of other nations. 2 (context of a ruler English) Supreme authority over all things. 3 (context of a person English) The liberty to decide one's thoughts and actions.

WordNet
sovereignty

  1. n. government free from external control

  2. royal authority; the dominion of a monarch [syn: reign]

Wikipedia
Sovereignty

Sovereignty is understood in jurisprudence as the full right and power of a governing body to govern itself without any interference from outside sources or bodies. In political theory, sovereignty is a substantive term designating supreme authority over some polity. It is a basic principle underlying the dominant Westphalian model of state foundation.

Derived from Latin through French souveraineté, its attainment and retention, in both Chinese and Western culture, has traditionally been associated with certain moral imperatives upon any claimant.

Sovereignty (Italy)

Sovereignty , is a nationalist political party in Italy. It is a part of the neo-fascist organization CasaPound.

The party supports an alliance with the right-wing parties Lega Nord and Us with Salvini.

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In Hegel, the synthesis of the theory of modern sovereignty and the theory of value produced by capitalist political economy is finally realized, just as in his work there is a perfect realization of the consciousness of the union of the absolutist and republican aspects-that is, the Hobbesian and Rousseauian aspects-of the theory of modern sovereignty.

Stripped and adust In a stubble of empire Scything and binding The full sheaves of sovereignty.

The Ameer of the neighbouring country of Afghanistan claims the sovereignty over the khanates Shugnan and Roshan, which form the larger portion of the Pamirs.

At the time ofBauzee or Condillac, the relation between roots, with their great lability of form, and the meaning patterned out of representations, or again, the link between the power to designate and the power to articulate, was assured by the sovereignty of the Name.

This central relationship between the form and the content of modern sovereignty is fully articulated in the work of Adam Smith.

An important segment of the natural right school thus developed the idea of distributing and articulating the transcendent sovereignty through the real forms of administration.

Whereas an important segment of the natural right school developed the idea of articulating transcendent sovereignty through the real forms of administration, the historicist thinkers of the Enlightenment attempted to conceive the subjectivity of the historical process and thereby find an effective ground for the title and exercise of sovereignty.

The immanent production of subjectivity in the society of control corresponds to the axiomatic logic of capital, and their resemblance indicates a new and more complete compatibility between sovereignty and capital.

In the years following the First Opium War disasters multiplied, taxes were increased upon the peasantry, corruption in the governing mandarinate became systematic, respect for authority declined, power decentralized, banditry flourished, sovereignty rotted at the center.

He saw that the title of President of the Cisalpine Republic was a great advance towards the sovereignty of Lombardy, as he afterwards found that the Consulate for life was a decisive step towards the throne of France.

The argument is conclusive, and the defence complete, if the Union is only a firm or copartnership, and the sovereignty vests in the States severally.

Constitution, and as a State be admitted into the Union, and that no legislation by Congress should be permitted to interfere with the free exercise of that will when so expressed, was but the announcement of the fact so firmly established in the Constitution, that sovereignty resided alone in the States, and that Congress had only delegated powers.

State retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not by this Confederation expressly delegated to the United States in Congress assembled.

It is by virtue of this sovereignty alone that the Government, its authorized agent, commands the obedience of the individual citizen, to the extent of its derivative, dependent, and delegated authority.

Constitution are fatal to the reservation of sovereignty by the States, the Constitution furnishes a conclusive answer in the amendment which was coeval with the adoption of the instrument, and which declares that all powers not delegated to the Government of the Union were reserved to the States or to the people.