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Sovereignty
- Definitions
- Leaving one group and being alone.
- University Definitions
- David Strachan-Morris
(University of Leicester)-The
ultimate power to make
decisions.
- Security
- Emma from Student
Recruitment (University of
London-Goldsmiths). A right
for people to control the
government.
- (University of Aberystwyth)-
Individual or body has supreme
authority to make decisions in.
- The full right and power of the governing
body to govern without interference
from outside agencies.(In search of
sovereignty podcast).
- That means no other power or individual or government or
entity anywhere else on the planet can supersede the
actions of the rulers or ruling body of that sovereign state.
- Old fashioned, divisive and confusing
(Joe Queenan).
- The supreme authority to enact laws.
- The right not to be
interfered with by other
states.
- Infiltrate
- Catalonia
- Spanish citizens have an issue
with Catalonians wishing to seek
independence
- Canada (Quebec)
- French speaking Canadians have been
in search for independence for
decades.
- Basque
- Basque is a region that straddles the
Western Pyranees in adjacent parts of
Northern Spain and Southwestern
France
- Linguistically, Basque is
unrelated to the other
language of Europe and to
any other known living
language.
- The Basques are
indigenous to,
and primarily
inhabit, the
Basque country
- 93.2%(700,300) are in the Spanish
area of the Basque Country and
the remaining 6.8%(51,200) are in
the French portion.
- Also...
- california
- the American state has
expressed a desire to leave the
United States (US).
- Kurds
- Between 25 and 35 Million Kurds inhabit a
mountainous region straddling the borders of
Turkey, Iaq, Syria, Iran, and Armenia
- They make up the Fourth-largest Ethnic group in the Middle-East.
- They have NEVER obtained a
permanent Nation State.
- The Cornish
- Macedonia
- They are a regional and historical population group
of ethnic Greeks, inhabitingor originating mainly
from the Greek region of Macedonia, in Nortehrn
Greece.
- Origins
- French jurist/lawyer, Jean Bodin first
wrote the word Sovereignty in the 16th
Century
- Bodin and other scholars
believe the term has Greek
and Roman roots.
- DEMOKRATIA
- IMPERIUM (authority to
supremely command.)
- From Latin words such as Empire.
- Autonomia (state sovereignty) can
be traced to the Peace Ttreatrety of
Westphalia in 1648 that ended the
European continents 30 year war
that had cost 8 million lives.
- autonomous individual states.
- The word came from Old French (SOVERAIN). It
then developed into SOVEREINETE.
- It then became adapted into English (SOVEREIGN).
- In Late English it became SOVEREIGNTY
- Within the UK, sovereignty is
based on Nationalism.
- The traditional British constitutional concept of sovereignty is the interaction
of 3 great sovereignties, THE ROYAL SOVEREIGNY, THE LEGAL SOVEREIGNTY
OF PARLIAMENT and the SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE.
- The last is the greatest!
- Brexit
- Brexit SUPPORTERS argues that the EU threatens
sovereignty and stifles growth.
- Opponents counter that EU membership strengthens
trade, investment, and the UKs standing in the world.