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  • "I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen," Oscar said.†   (source)
  • Sure, they still believe in God, but He's got competition now-a belief in the sovereignty of self—and the spell of absolute, unquestioning faith, upon which Long has built his cathedral, is broken.†   (source)
  • If the Clave will sign over all the powers of the Council to me and accept my unequivocal sovereignty and rule, I will stay my hand.†   (source)
  • We will learn of its release within seven days, when the community of nations, perhaps through the United Nations, receives notice to hand over sovereignty and all nuclear weapons in exchange for an antivirus.†   (source)
  • As Adams explained to Congress, sovereignty resided in the national assembly, Their High Mightinesses, the States-General.†   (source)
  • Defense Secretary Robert Gates supported the air strike because it kept American ground forces out of Pakistan, which made the mission less like an invasion of the country's sovereignty.†   (source)
  • As long as he possesses the Book, it is not just Rowan's sovereignty that hangs in the balance, but the fate of this very world.†   (source)
  • That knowledge is in itself a violation of your sovereignty.†   (source)
  • However, the Anglo-French agreement would permit mutual search rights and Van Buren did not want to cede any maritime rights of sovereignty onboard American-flagged ships.†   (source)
  • Confederate soldiers' letters and diaries continued in 1864 and even into 1865 to abound with such expressions as this "gigantic struggle for liberty," for "the great Democratic principles of States' Rights and States' Sovereignty," for "the dear rights of freemen" against "tyranny and oppression," a cause "made a thousand times dearer by the sacrifice it has cost and is costing us."†   (source)
  • They should never split into a number of unsocial, jealous, and alien sovereignties.†   (source)
  • Stripped of their dignity, as Heafstaag had done by refusing to honor the sovereignty of each individual king, the tribesmen were no better in battle than ordinary men.†   (source)
  • Together we explored our sovereignty and named it Nancol.†   (source)
  • The sovereignty of Free Luna is not the abstract matter you seem to feel it is.†   (source)
  • Since sovereignty can be defined, at bottom, as "might makes right," they were standing on firm legal ground.†   (source)
  • When Karellen had finished, the nations of Earth knew that their days of precarious sovereignty had ended.†   (source)
  • Mundt, who had no diplomatic immunity (NATO Britain does not recognize our sovereignty), went into hiding.†   (source)
  • If yousay I must come down, I will obey without a murmur, for you cannot make me lie to you; but if you return me, I can only say that I will be true to love of country, truth, and God…… I have always thought that the first duty of a public man in a Republic founded upon the sovereignty of the people is a frank and sincere expression of his opinions to his constituents.†   (source)
  • For he was preparing to take up the reins again as if her sovereignty had been nothing, nothing at all.†   (source)
  • China does not recognize Taiwan's claims to sovereignty.
  • Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.   (source)
  • The first edict concerns Rowan's lands, sovereignty, and safety.†   (source)
  • The faeries have always had their own sovereignty, our own kings and queens.†   (source)
  • "I will have my sovereignty," said Attolia thinly.†   (source)
  • At last the world acknowledges Luna's sovereignty.†   (source)
  • Only 3 Exceptions to States' Sovereignty†   (source)
  • The circumstances needed to remove State sovereignty were discussed when taxation was discussed.†   (source)
  • Or did we do it for the State governments, so they can have power and sovereignty?†   (source)
  • Equal votes in the Senate constitutionally preserve the sovereignty that remains in the States.†   (source)
  • The States will have a total sovereignty over all other issues.†   (source)
  • One is giving the Union partial sovereignty while giving the States complete sovereignty.†   (source)
  • The State constitutions give the States complete sovereignty.†   (source)
  • However, the States keep much of their sovereignty under the Constitution.†   (source)
  • Few people have suggested that the States should divide into thirteen unconnected sovereignties.†   (source)
  • I wrote an essay on John Stuart Mill's concept of self-sovereignty, and my supervisor, Dr. David Runciman, said that if my dissertation was of the same quality, I might be accepted to Cambridge for a PhD.†   (source)
  • He tells the world he has no intention of incorporating other nations into the German states and denying them the right to their own sovereignty, but what about the Czechs; what about the Poles and the Serbs?†   (source)
  • His father's historic pledge, after Mussolini's forces invaded in 1939, to exercise the rights of sovereignty in accordance with the political and economic interests of neighboring France in exchange for military and naval protection in the event of war might have tied the hands of a lesser politician, but Mia's father has managed to work around that agreement.†   (source)
  • "Sovereignty and rule?" he shrieked.†   (source)
  • Congress had "prostituted" its own honor by surrendering its sovereignty to the French Foreign Minister.†   (source)
  • He went on: "Sovereignty is an abstract concept, one that has been redefined many times as mankind has learned to live in peace.†   (source)
  • The burgomasters of Amsterdam …. who are called the regency, are one integral branch of the sovereignty of the seven United Provinces, and the most material branch of all because the city of Amsterdam is one quarter of the whole Republic, at least in taxes.†   (source)
  • "Sovereignty" meant much in North America and "Fourth of July" was a magic date; Fourth-of-July League handled our appearances and Stu told us that it had not cost much to get it moving and nothing to keep going; League even raised money used elsewhere—North Americans enjoy giving no matter who gets it.†   (source)
  • Equality Protects State Sovereignty†   (source)
  • They have no common treasury, no common armies even in war, no common coin, no common judicatory, nor any other common mark of a sovereignty.†   (source)
  • To nourish discord and disorder, Rome suggested members leave the league; Rome appealed to their pride, saying the league violated their sovereignty.†   (source)
  • However, an inconvenience in the exercise of powers does not imply a constitutional ban of a preexisting right of sovereignty.†   (source)
  • Idea Conflicts with State Sovereignty†   (source)
  • In the 11th century the emperors held full sovereignty; by the 15th century they were only symbols of power.†   (source)
  • A sovereignty over sovereigns, a government over governments, legislation for communities—rather than a government over individuals is illogical in theory.†   (source)
  • One exception, referring to equality in the Senate, is probably a safeguard to the remaining sovereignty of the States, which have equal representation in one branch of the legislature.†   (source)
  • In a similar manner, when State sovereignty is incompatible with the happiness of the people, every good citizen should cry out: Let the former be sacrificed to the latter.†   (source)
  • An entire consolidation of the States into one national sovereignty would imply an entire subordination of the parts; State powers would be completely dependent on the federal government.†   (source)
  • The States retain all the rights of sovereignty they had before except those that are not exclusively delegated to the United States by the Constitution.†   (source)
  • [Articles of Confederation, Article Two: "Each 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.†   (source)
  • State sovereignty is transferred to the Union in three cases: where the Constitution expressly grants exclusive authority to the Union; where it grants a specific authority to the Union and prohibits the States from exercising the same authority; and where it grants an authority to the Union, to which similar authority in the States would be absolutely and totally contradictory and repugnant.†   (source)
  • This is especially true when a country's new constitution incorporates a number of distinct sovereignties.†   (source)
  • Injuries are caused by legitimate and justifiable acts of independent sovereignties with different interests.†   (source)
  • Sovereignties Hate Outside Control†   (source)
  • Let candid men judge whether dividing America into several independent sovereignties would secure us against the hostilities and improper interference of foreign nations.†   (source)
  • The end of national sovereignty had been felt here perhaps more bitterly than anywhere else, for it is hard to lose a dream which one has just achieved after centuries of striving.†   (source)
  • England is a land for Norman Sovereignty.†   (source)
  • Those who have despised me shall acknowledge my sovereignty.†   (source)
  • As to the territories, if natural causes were not sufficient to keep slavery from going there, Douglas's popular sovereignty probably would have done so.†   (source)
  • Then proudly he to his nobles spoke, Intoxicated with their loud applause, "I am unequalled, for to me the earth Owes all its science, never did exist A sovereignty like mine, beneficent And glorious, driving from the populous land Disease and want.†   (source)
  • The best way of dealing with the few slackers or trouble-makers in our midst is, first, to shame them by patriotic example, and if that fails, to use the sovereignty of government to save government.†   (source)
  • After Douglas split with the more Southern faction of the Democratic Party headed by President Buchanan, there was even a movement among Republicans to coalesce with him and offer him the presidential nomination in 1860 on a popular-sovereignty platform!†   (source)
  • But by some inscrutable law of my being sovereignty and the possession of power will not be enough; I shall always push through curtains to privacy, and want some whispered words alone.†   (source)
  • Why, it was reasoned, should opponents of the extension of slavery try to exclude it from the territories by an act of Congress that would be a gratuitous insult to the South, if the same end could be served by letting geography and popular sovereignty have their way?†   (source)
  • Their banter was not new to him and now it flattered his mild proud sovereignty.†   (source)
  • Cheer us and warm us with thy gracious rays, O flaming sun of sovereignty!†   (source)
  • The theory of society supposes the existence and sovereignty of these.†   (source)
  • Chapter IV: The Principle Of The Sovereignty Of The People In America.†   (source)
  • In their toilettes, in their gayety, in the noise which they made, there was sovereignty.†   (source)
  • Each colony became an independent republic, and assumed an absolute sovereignty.†   (source)
  • Each sovereignty concedes a certain quantity of itself, for the purpose of forming the common right.†   (source)
  • This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty.†   (source)
  • The principle upon which all confederations rest is that of a divided sovereignty.†   (source)
  • Revolutionary agitations create fissures there, through which trickles the popular sovereignty.†   (source)
  • Two sovereignties are necessarily in presence of each other.†   (source)
  • The porter replied, with the tone of marital sovereignty: "If he's rich, let him have a doctor.†   (source)
  • The Rights of Man, the sovereignty of the people, sapristi!†   (source)
  • Where two or three of these sovereignties are combined, the state begins.†   (source)
  • The point of intersection of all these assembled sovereignties is called society.†   (source)
  • It has its divine right of sovereignty.†   (source)
  • To have nagged would have been to admit that there were persons who did not acknowledge her sovereignty.†   (source)
  • Given the fact that all sovereignty and authority were originally vested in the people, who then transferred all legislative and other powers to their prince, your school of thought deduces, first and foremost, the people's right to revolt against the crown.†   (source)
  • …an 'ornamental water' had been constructed by Swann's parents but, even in his most artificial creations, nature is the material upon which man has to work; certain spots will persist in remaining surrounded by the vassals of their own especial sovereignty, and will raise their immemorial standards among all the 'laid-out' scenery of a park, just as they would have done far from any human interference, in a solitude which must everywhere return to engulf them, springing up out of the…†   (source)
  • I don't believe I am mistaken in assuming we are agreed in our presupposition of an ideal primal condition of man, a stateless condition that knew no compulsion, where the relationship to God was direct and childlike, where there was neither sovereignty nor service, no law, no punishment, no injustice, no union of the flesh, no class differences, no labor, no property, but only equality, fraternity, and moral perfection.†   (source)
  • Just then the man glanced quickly up and quickly dropped his face again, not being able to endure the awful port of sovereignty; but the one full glimpse of the face which Tom got was sufficient.†   (source)
  • I know by that that there has never been any successful Burr, O Danforth, Danforth,' he sighed out, 'how like a wretched night's dream a boy's idea of personal fame or of separate sovereignty seems, when one looks back on it after such a life as mine!†   (source)
  • She did not invoke God, we very well know, but she had faith in the genius of evil—that immense sovereignty which reigns in all the details of human life, and by which, as in the Arabian fable, a single pomegranate seed is sufficient to reconstruct a ruined world.†   (source)
  • In fact, everybody in the room bore on his head this characteristic emblem of man's sovereignty; whether it were felt hat, palm-leaf, greasy beaver, or fine new chapeau, there it reposed with true republican independence.†   (source)
  • And they will have a right to independence--to self-government--to the possession of the homes conquered from the wilderness by their own labors and dangers, sufferings and sacrifices-a better and a truer right than the artificial tide of sovereignty in Mexico, a thousand miles distant, inheriting from Spain a title good only against those who have none better.†   (source)
  • They are simply the Romish army for the earthly sovereignty of the world in the future, with the Pontiff of Rome for Emperor …. that's their ideal, but there's no sort of mystery or lofty melancholy about it….†   (source)
  • As Villefort observes, it is a great act of folly to have left such a man between Corsica, where he was born, and Naples, of which his brother-in-law is king, and face to face with Italy, the sovereignty of which he coveted for his son.†   (source)
  • That would be to give up his riches and the sovereignty of trade so royally witnessed on the wharf and river.†   (source)
  • I would I might please thee, sir, and it is to me dole and sorrow that I fail, albeit sith I am but a simple damsel and taught of none, being from the cradle unbaptized in those deep waters of learning that do anoint with a sovereignty him that partaketh of that most noble sacrament, investing him with reverend state to the mental eye of the humble mortal who, by bar and lack of that great consecration seeth in his own unlearned estate but a symbol of that other sort of lack and loss…†   (source)
  • These same opinions are more and more diffused in Europe; they even insinuate themselves amongst those nations which most vehemently reject the principle of the sovereignty of the people.†   (source)
  • Mingled with this confused heap, which was tossed into the flames by armfuls at once, were innumerable badges of knighthood, comprising those of all the European sovereignties, and Napoleon's decoration of the Legion of Honor, the ribbons of which were entangled with those of the ancient order of St. Louis.†   (source)
  • Athelstane, it is true, was vain enough, and loved to have his ears tickled with tales of his high descent, and of his right by inheritance to homage and sovereignty.†   (source)
  • "And now to my boon," said the King, "which I ask not with one jot the less confidence, that thou hast refused to acknowledge my lawful sovereignty.†   (source)
  • To protect their personal independence I trust not to great political assemblies, to parliamentary privilege, or to the assertion of popular sovereignty.†   (source)
  • It was as though some idea had seized the sovereignty of his mind—and it was for all his life and for ever and ever.†   (source)
  • You were of opinion that he would be a king, but not as Caesar is; you thought his sovereignty would be spiritual, not of the world.†   (source)
  • "I was somewhat afflicted," he said, "to see the grief of the Queen of Love and Beauty, whose sovereignty of a day this event has changed into mourning.†   (source)
  • They combine the principle of centralization and that of popular sovereignty; this gives them a respite; they console themselves for being in tutelage by the reflection that they have chosen their own guardians.†   (source)
  • Rowena's will had been in almost all cases a law to his household; and Cedric himself, as if determined that her sovereignty should be fully acknowledged within that little circle at least, seemed to take a pride in acting as the first of her subjects.†   (source)
  • I have always thought that servitude of the regular, quiet, and gentle kind which I have just described, might be combined more easily than is commonly believed with some of the outward forms of freedom; and that it might even establish itself under the wing of the sovereignty of the people.†   (source)
  • "Assume," he said, "fair lady, the mark of your sovereignty, to which none vows homage more sincerely than ourself, John of Anjou; and if it please you to-day, with your noble sire and friends, to grace our banquet in the Castle of Ashby, we shall learn to know the empress to whose service we devote to-morrow."†   (source)
  • A great many persons at the present day are quite contented with this sort of compromise between administrative despotism and the sovereignty of the people; and they think they have done enough for the protection of individual freedom when they have surrendered it to the power of the nation at large.†   (source)
  • I have already observed that the principle of the sovereignty of the people governs the whole political system of the Anglo-Americans.†   (source)
  • It is impossible to imagine how much this division of sovereignty contributes to the well-being of each of the States which compose the Union.†   (source)
  • But the inference to be drawn is, that in the laws relating to these matters the Union possesses all the rights of absolute sovereignty.†   (source)
  • The principle of the sovereignty of the people, which is to be found, more or less, at the bottom of almost all human institutions, generally remains concealed from view.†   (source)
  • The reason of this is perfectly simple: the Americans, having once admitted the doctrine of the sovereignty of the people, apply it with perfect consistency.†   (source)
  • That which universal suffrage has effected in its liberty and in its sovereignty cannot be undone by the street.†   (source)
  • But in the countries in which the doctrine of the sovereignty of the people ostensibly prevails, the censorship of the press is not only dangerous, but it is absurd.†   (source)
  • From a political point of view, there is but a single principle; the sovereignty of man over himself.†   (source)
  • In the nations by which the sovereignty of the people is recognized every individual possesses an equal share of power, and participates alike in the government of the State.†   (source)
  • This sovereignty may do evil; it can be mistaken like any other; but, even when led astray, it remains great.†   (source)
  • In this division of the rights of sovereignty, the share of the Union seems at first sight to be more considerable than that of the States; but a more attentive investigation shows it to be less so.†   (source)
  • One morning it drew itself up before the face of France, and, elevating its voice, it contested the collective title and the individual right of the nation to sovereignty, of the citizen to liberty.†   (source)
  • It was in the midst of this faith, of this intoxication, of this virgin possession, unprecedented and absolute, of this sovereignty, that these words: "We are going away," fell suddenly, at a blow, and that the harsh voice of reality cried to him: "Cosette is not yours!"†   (source)
  • When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right which the majority has of commanding, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind.†   (source)
  • It—that barricade, chance, hazard, disorder, terror, misunderstanding, the unknown— had facing it the Constituent Assembly, the sovereignty of the people, universal suffrage, the nation, the republic; and it was the Carmagnole bidding defiance to the Marseillaise.†   (source)
  • *g The system of the jury, as it is understood in America, appears to me to be as direct and as extreme a consequence of the sovereignty of the people as universal suffrage.†   (source)
  • Sovereignty of the people.†   (source)
  • Thus the jurisdiction of the tribunals of the Union extends and narrows its limits exactly in the same ratio as the sovereignty of the Union augments or decreases.†   (source)
  • In all questions which result from collective sovereignty, the war of the whole against the fraction is insurrection; the attack of the fraction against the whole is revolt; according as the Tuileries contain a king or the Convention, they are justly or unjustly attacked.†   (source)
  • I have already observed that, from their origin, the sovereignty of the people was the fundamental principle of the greater number of British colonies in America.†   (source)
  • They exercised the rights of sovereignty; they named their magistrates, concluded peace or declared war, made police regulations, and enacted laws as if their allegiance was due only to God.†   (source)
  • We are few in number, we have a whole army arrayed against us; but we are defending right, the natural law, the sovereignty of each one over himself from which no abdication is possible, justice and truth, and in case of need, we die like the three hundred Spartans.†   (source)
  • …these personages without terror; the Revolution and the Empire presented themselves luminously, in perspective, before his mind's eye; he beheld each of these groups of events and of men summed up in two tremendous facts: the Republic in the sovereignty of civil right restored to the masses, the Empire in the sovereignty of the French idea imposed on Europe; he beheld the grand figure of the people emerge from the Revolution, and the grand figure of France spring forth from the Empire.†   (source)
  • In the United States the executive power is as limited and partial as the sovereignty of the Union in whose name it acts; in France it is as universal as the authority of the State.†   (source)
  • In short, what cause is more just, and consequently, what war is greater, than that which re-establishes social truth, restores her throne to liberty, restores the people to the people, restores sovereignty to man, replaces the purple on the head of France, restores equity and reason in their plenitude, suppresses every germ of antagonism by restoring each one to himself, annihilates the obstacle which royalty presents to the whole immense universal concord, and places the human race…†   (source)
  • At the present day the principle of the sovereignty of the people has acquired, in the United States, all the practical development which the imagination can conceive.†   (source)
  • …to legislation, the decrees of the sovereign courts, the magistracy, the government, prevention, repression, official cruelty, wisdom, legal infallibility, the principle of authority, all the dogmas on which rest political and civil security, sovereignty, justice, public truth, all this was rubbish, a shapeless mass, chaos; he himself, Javert, the spy of order, incorruptibility in the service of the police, the bull-dog providence of society, vanquished and hurled to earth; and, erect,…†   (source)
  • The principle of the independence of the States prevailed in the formation of the Senate, and that of the sovereignty of the nation predominated in the composition of the House of Representatives.†   (source)
  • I have remarked that the authority of the President in the United States is only exercised within the limits of a partial sovereignty, whilst that of the King in France is undivided.†   (source)
  • In Spain certain provinces had the right of establishing a system of custom-house duties peculiar to themselves, although that privilege belongs, by its very nature, to the national sovereignty.†   (source)
  • They have been allowed by their circumstances, their origin, their intelligence, and especially by their moral feeling, to establish and maintain the sovereignty of the people.†   (source)
  • The very essence of democratic government consists in the absolute sovereignty of the majority; for there is nothing in democratic States which is capable of resisting it.†   (source)
  • The sovereignty of the Union is factitious, that of the States is natural, and derives its existence from its own simple influence, like the authority of a parent.†   (source)
  • ]] The Constitution had not destroyed the distinct sovereignty of the States; and all communities, of whatever nature they may be, are impelled by a secret propensity to assert their independence.†   (source)
  • The Union itself may be invoked in legal proceedings, and in this case it would be alike contrary to the customs of all nations and to common sense to appeal to a tribunal representing any other sovereignty than its own; the Federal courts, therefore, take cognizance of these affairs.†   (source)
  • But this is not always the case in countries in which the sovereignty is divided; in them the judicial power is more frequently opposed to a fraction of the nation than to an isolated individual, and its moral authority and physical strength are consequently diminished.†   (source)
  • They perceive that in most of the nations of the world the exercise of the rights of sovereignty tends to fall under the control of a few individuals, and they are dismayed by the idea that such will also be the case in their own country.†   (source)
  • *l Thus, in point of fact, the judicial power of the Union is contesting the claims of the sovereignty of a State; but it only acts indirectly and upon a special application of detail: it attacks the law in its consequences, not in its principle, and it rather weakens than destroys it.†   (source)
  • The sovereignty of the Union is an abstract being, which is connected with but few external objects; the sovereignty of the States is hourly perceptible, easily understood, constantly active; and if the former is of recent creation, the latter is coeval with the people itself.†   (source)
  • It is proposed to examine in the following chapter what is the form of government established in America on the principle of the sovereignty of the people; what are its resources, its hindrances, its advantages, and its dangers.†   (source)
  • At the period of their first emigrations the parish system, that fruitful germ of free institutions, was deeply rooted in the habits of the English; and with it the doctrine of the sovereignty of the people had been introduced into the bosom of the monarchy of the House of Tudor.†   (source)
  • As the sovereignty of the Union is limited and incomplete, its exercise is not incompatible with liberty; for it does not excite those insatiable desires of fame and power which have proved so fatal to great republics.†   (source)
  • If the sovereignty of the Union were to engage in a struggle with that of the States at the present day, its defeat may be confidently predicted; and it is not probable that such a struggle would be seriously undertaken.†   (source)
  • How the principle of the sovereignty of the people is to be understood—Impossibility of conceiving a mixed government—The sovereign power must centre somewhere—Precautions to be taken to control its action—These precautions have not been taken in the United States—Consequences.†   (source)
  • They were not appointed to constitute the government of a single people, but to regulate the association of several States; and, whatever their inclinations might be, they could not but divide the exercise of sovereignty in the end.†   (source)
  • In America the principle of the sovereignty of the people is not either barren or concealed, as it is with some other nations; it is recognized by the customs and proclaimed by the laws; it spreads freely, and arrives without impediment at its most remote consequences.†   (source)
  • The Principle Of The Sovereignty Of The People In America Whenever the political laws of the United States are to be discussed, it is with the doctrine of the sovereignty of the people that we must begin.†   (source)
  • At that time the interpretation of the Constitution seemed to extend, rather than to repress, the federal sovereignty; and the Union offered, in several respects, the appearance of a single and undivided people, directed in its foreign and internal policy by a single Government.†   (source)
  • The legislator may render this partition less perceptible, he may even conceal it for a time from the public eye, but he cannot prevent it from existing, and a divided sovereignty must always be less powerful than an entire supremacy.†   (source)
  • As long as these savages consented to retire before the civilized settlers, the federal right was not contested: but as soon as an Indian tribe attempted to fix its dwelling upon a given spot, the adjacent States claimed possession of the lands and the rights of sovereignty over the natives.†   (source)
  • A people which should divide its sovereignty into fractional powers, in the presence of the great military monarchies of Europe, would, in my opinion, by that very act, abdicate its power, and perhaps its existence and its name.†   (source)
  • Municipal independence is therefore a natural consequence of the principle of the sovereignty of the people in the United States: all the American republics recognize it more or less; but circumstances have peculiarly favored its growth in New England.†   (source)
  • If there be a country in the world where the doctrine of the sovereignty of the people can be fairly appreciated, where it can be studied in its application to the affairs of society, and where its dangers and its advantages may be foreseen, that country is assuredly America.†   (source)
  • When once the general theory is comprehended, numberless difficulties remain to be solved in its application; for the sovereignty of the Union is so involved in that of the States that it is impossible to distinguish its boundaries at the first glance.†   (source)
  • The jury is pre-eminently a political institution; it must be regarded as one form of the sovereignty of the people; when that sovereignty is repudiated, it must be rejected, or it must be adapted to the laws by which that sovereignty is established.†   (source)
  • The father of a family applies it to his children; the master to his servants; the township to its officers; the province to its townships; the State to its provinces; the Union to the States; and when extended to the nation, it becomes the doctrine of the sovereignty of the people.†   (source)
  • The sovereignty of the United States is shared between the Union and the States, whilst in France it is undivided and compact: hence arises the first and the most notable difference which exists between the President of the United States and the King of France.†   (source)
  • In the United States, the sovereignty of the people is not an isolated doctrine bearing no relation to the prevailing manners and ideas of the people: it may, on the contrary, be regarded as the last link of a chain of opinions which binds the whole Anglo-American world.†   (source)
  • So far is the Federal Government from acquiring strength, and from threatening the sovereignty of the States, as it grows older, that I maintain it to be growing weaker and weaker, and that the sovereignty of the Union alone is in danger.†   (source)
  • ]] Division of the Legislative Body into two branches—Difference in the manner of forming the two Houses—The principle of the independence of the States predominates in the formation of the Senate—The principle of the sovereignty of the nation in the composition of the House of Representatives—Singular effects of the fact that a Constitution can only be logical in the early stages of a nation.†   (source)
  • [Footnote c: See, amongst other documents, the report made by Mr. Bell in the name of the Committee on Indian Affairs, February 24, 1830, in which is most logically established and most learnedly proved, that "the fundamental principle that the Indians had no right by virtue of their ancient possession either of will or sovereignty, has never been abandoned either expressly or by implication."†   (source)
  • Of course the lesser States could not subscribe to the application of this doctrine without, in fact, abdicating their existence in relation to the sovereignty of the Confederation; since they would have passed from the condition of a co-equal and co-legislative authority to that of an insignificant fraction of a great people.†   (source)
  • ] In examining the balance of power as established by the Federal Constitution; in remarking on the one hand the portion of sovereignty which has been reserved to the several States, and on the other the share of power which the Union has assumed, it is evident that the Federal legislators entertained the clearest and most accurate notions on the nature of the centralization of government.†   (source)
  • If all the citizens of the State were aggrieved at the same time and in the same manner by the authority of the Union, the Federal Government would vainly attempt to subdue them individually; they would instinctively unite in a common defence, and they would derive a ready-prepared organization from the share of sovereignty which the institution of their State allows them to enjoy.†   (source)
  • For nations which are arrived at the same stage of social existence as the Anglo-Americans, it is therefore very difficult to discover a medium between the sovereignty of all and the absolute power of one man: and it would be vain to deny that the social condition which I have been describing is equally liable to each of these consequences.†   (source)
  • ] Means Of Determining The Jurisdiction Of The Federal Courts Difficulty of determining the jurisdiction of separate courts of justice in confederations—The courts of the Union obtained the right of fixing their own jurisdiction—In what respect this rule attacks the portion of sovereignty reserved to the several States—The sovereignty of these States restricted by the laws, and the interpretation of the laws—Consequently, the danger of the several States is more apparent than real.†   (source)
  • The irresistible authority of justice in countries in which the sovereignty in undivided is derived from the fact that the tribunals of those countries represent the entire nation at issue with the individual against whom their decree is directed, and the idea of power is thus introduced to corroborate the idea of right.†   (source)
  • This cause of inferiority results from the nature of things, but it is not the only one; the second in importance is as follows: Sovereignty may be defined to be the right of making laws: in France, the King really exercises a portion of the sovereign power, since the laws have no weight till he has given his assent to them; he is, moreover, the executor of all they ordain.†   (source)
  • To grant this privilege to the different courts of the States would have been to destroy the sovereignty of the Union de facto after having established it de jure; for the interpretation of the Constitution would soon have restored that portion of independence to the States of which the terms of that act deprived them.†   (source)
  • The difficulty is to know what these matters are; and when once it is resolved (and we have shown how it was resolved, in speaking of the means of determining the jurisdiction of the Federal courts) no further doubt can arise; for as soon as it is established that a suit is Federal—that is to say, that it belongs to the share of sovereignty reserved by the Constitution of the Union—the natural consequence is that it should come within the jurisdiction of a Federal court.†   (source)
  • Existence Of The Township Every one the best judge of his own interest—Corollary of the principle of the sovereignty of the people—Application of those doctrines in the townships of America—The township of New England is sovereign in all that concerns itself alone: subject to the State in all other matters—Bond of the township and the State—In France the Government lends its agent to the Commune—In America the reverse occurs.†   (source)
  • If one of the confederate States have acquired a preponderance sufficiently great to enable it to take exclusive possession of the central authority, it will consider the other States as subject provinces, and it will cause its own supremacy to be respected under the borrowed name of the sovereignty of the Union.†   (source)
  • When a compact nation divides its sovereignty, and adopts a confederate form of government, the traditions, the customs, and the manners of the people are for a long time at variance with their legislation; and the former tend to give a degree of influence to the central government which the latter forbids.†   (source)
  • Its sole object is to enforce the execution of the laws of the Union; and the Union only regulates the relations of the Government with the citizens, and of the nation with Foreign Powers: the relations of citizens amongst themselves are almost exclusively regulated by the sovereignty of the States.†   (source)
  • Trial By Jury In The United States Considered As A Political Institution Trial by jury, which is one of the instruments of the sovereignty of the people, deserves to be compared with the other laws which establish that sovereignty—Composition of the jury in the United States—Effect of trial by jury upon the national character—It educates the people—It tends to establish the authority of the magistrates and to extend a knowledge of law among the people.†   (source)
  • It cannot be doubted that the spirit of the nation, the passions of the multitude, and the provincial prejudices of each State tend singularly to diminish the authority of a Federal authority thus constituted, and to facilitate the means of resistance to its mandates; but the comparative weakness of a restricted sovereignty is an evil inherent in the Federal system.†   (source)
  • …system contains defects which baffle the efforts of the legislator—The Federal system is complex—It demands a daily exercise of discretion on the part of the citizens—Practical knowledge of government common amongst the Americans—Relative weakness of the Government of the Union, another defect inherent in the Federal system—The Americans have diminished without remedying it—The sovereignty of the separate States apparently weaker, but really stronger, than that of the Union—Why?†   (source)
  • Difficulty of restraining the liberty of the press—Particular reasons which some nations have to cherish this liberty—The liberty of the press a necessary consequence of the sovereignty of the people as it is understood in America—Violent language of the periodical press in the United States—Propensities of the periodical press—Illustrated by the United States—Opinion of the Americans upon the repression of the abuse of the liberty of the press by judicial prosecutions—Reasons for…†   (source)
  • Pennsylvania was the only one of the United States which at first attempted to establish a single House of Assembly, and Franklin himself was so far carried away by the necessary consequences of the principle of the sovereignty of the people as to have concurred in the measure; but the Pennsylvanians were soon obliged to change the law, and to create two Houses.†   (source)
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