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   5 days ago · The concept of sovereignty—one of the most controversial ideas in political science and international law—is closely related to the difficult concepts of state and government and of independence and democracy.

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   In political theory, sovereignty is a substantive term designating supreme legitimate authority over some polity. [6] . In international law, sovereignty is the exercise of power by a state. De jure sovereignty refers to the legal right to do so; de facto sovereignty refers to the factual ability to do so.

3. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca › sovereigntySovereignty - The Canadian Encyclopedia

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   Feb 7, 2006 · Sovereignty is an abstract legal concept. It also has political, social and economic implications. In strictly legal terms, sovereignty describes the power of a state to govern itself and its subjects. In this sense, sovereignty is the highest source of the law.

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5. plato.stanford.edu › entries › sovereigntySovereignty - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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   May 31, 2003 · Sovereignty, though its meanings have varied across history, also has a core meaning, supreme authority within a territory. It is a modern notion of political authority.

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   Oct 4, 2024 · It is a form of human association distinguished from other social groups by its purpose, the creation of order and security; its methods, the laws and their enforcement; its territory; and its sovereignty.

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   For others, the nation existed first, then nationalist movements arose for sovereignty, and the nation-state was created to meet that demand. Some “modernization theories” of nationalism see it as a product of government policies to unify and modernize an already existing state.

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   What does sovereignty mean in law?

   • In any state, sovereignty is assigned to the person, body or institution that has the ultimate authority over other people and to change existing laws. In political theory, sovereignty is a substantive term designating supreme legitimate authority over some polity. In international law, sovereignty is the exercise of power by a state.

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   What is a sovereign state?

   • The state is the political institution in which sovereignty is embodied. An assemblage of states forms a sovereign states system. The history of sovereignty can be understood through two broad movements, manifested in both practical institutions and political thought.

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   When did sovereignty become a concept?

   • Sovereignty reemerged as a concept in the late 16th century, a time when civil wars had created a craving for a stronger central authority when monarchs had begun to gather power onto their own hands at the expense of the nobility, and the modern nation state was emerging.

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   Who holds sovereignty?

   • Indeed, on one reading, modern political philosophy has been a debate about who holds sovereignty. coexistent, aspects of sovereignty. Supreme authority within a territory independence from unwanted intervention by an outside authority — a church, an empire, another state or a United Nations.

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   Does sovereignty exist?

   • Some scholars have doubted whether a stable, essential notion of sovereignty exists. But there is in fact a definition that captures what sovereignty came to mean in early modern Europe and of which most subsequent definitions are a variant: supreme authority within a territory.

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   How does a state express its sovereignty?

   • In this context, a state’s sovereignty is expressed in three ways. First, through its legal control of territory, territorial waters and national air space, and its legal power to exclude other states from these domains.

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   But sovereignty needs definition. Precisely because of its complex historical evolution, finding a definition encompassing every usage since Hoffmann, "Institutional Change in Europe in the 1980s," in The New European Community: Decision making and Insitutional Change, ed. Robert O. Keohane and Stanley Hoffmann