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.