Examples of Sovereign states in the following topics:
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- The Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution deals with each state's sovereign immunity.
- The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State.
- State the prohibition granted and protection afforded by the 11th Amendment
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- In contemporary international law, the world consists of sovereign states (or "sovereign nations").
- A state is said to be "sovereign" if any of its ruling inhabitants are the supreme authority over it; the concept is distinct from mere land-title or ownership.
- While each state was originally recognized as sovereign unto itself, the post-Civil War Supreme Court held that the United States of America consists of only one sovereign nation with respect to foreign affairs and international relations; in other words, the individual states may not conduct foreign relations.
- A unique aspect of the American system of government is that, while the rest of the world views the United States as one country, domestically, American constitutional law recognizes a federation of state governments separate from (and not subdivisions of) the federal government, each of which is sovereign over its own affairs.
- As a result, although the federal government is recognized as sovereign and has supreme power over those matters within its control, the American constitutional system also recognizes the concept of "state sovereignty" where certain matters are susceptible to government regulation, but only at the state and not the federal level.
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- Some of the principles developed at Westphalia, especially those relating to respecting the boundaries of sovereign states and non-interference in their domestic affairs, became central to the world order that developed over the following centuries, and remain in effect today.
- Many of the imperial territories established in the Peace of Westphalia later became the sovereign nation-states of modern Europe.
- The Peace of Westphalia established the precedent of peaces established by diplomatic congress, and a new system of political order in central Europe, later called Westphalian sovereignty, based upon the concept of co-existing sovereign states.
- Inter-state aggression was to be held in check by a balance of power.
- As European influence spread across the globe, these Westphalian principles, especially the concept of sovereign states, became central to international law and to the prevailing world order.
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- The sovereign nature of individual states in the United States of America has been interpreted differently during American history.
- In contemporary international law, the world consists of sovereign states (or "sovereign nations" in modern equivalent).
- A state is said to be "sovereign" if any of its ruling inhabitants are the supreme authority over it, though the concept is distinct from mere land-title or ownership.
- While each state was originally recognized as sovereign unto itself, the post-Civil War Supreme Court held that the United States of America consists of only one sovereign nation with respect to foreign affairs and international relations; the individual states may not conduct foreign relations.
- In the American system of government, constitutional law recognizes a federation of state governments separate from (and not subdivisions of) the federal government, each of which is sovereign over its own affairs.
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- The United States is a union of states.
- In contemporary international law, the world consists of sovereign states (or "sovereign nations").
- A state is said to be "sovereign" if any of its ruling inhabitants are the supreme authority over it, a concept distinct from mere land-title or ownership.
- While each state was originally recognized as sovereign unto itself, the post-Civil War Supreme Court held that the United States of America consists of only one sovereign nation with respect to foreign affairs and international relations; the individual states may not conduct foreign relations.
- Stated in negative terms, the Preamble has been interpreted as meaning that the Constitution was not the act of sovereign and independent states.
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- States may be classified as sovereign if they are not dependent on, or subject to, any other power or state.
- Other states are subject to external sovereignty or hegemony where ultimate sovereignty lies in another state.
- Such states differ from sovereign states, in that they have transferred a portion of their sovereign powers to a federal government.
- The nation state is a state that self-identifies as deriving its political legitimacy from serving as a sovereign entity for a nation as a sovereign territorial unit.
- In the United States, the state is governed by a government headed by an elected president.
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- Both the Union and countries in Europe refused to recognize the Confederacy as a sovereign nation.
- The United States government considered the Southern
states to be in rebellion and refused to grant formal recognition of the Confederacy
as a sovereign state.
- Sovereign status was important in terms of the rights and
obligations accorded to a government under military and international law, so
nonrecognition had important implications for the South.
- Immediately following the Battle of Fort Sumter, the
Confederate Congress proclaimed, "... war exists between the Confederate
States and the Government of the United States, and the States and Territories
thereof… .”
- Secretary of
State William H.
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- It has also been thought to mean all individuals who fall under the sovereign jurisdiction of the US government.
- While each state was originally recognized as sovereign unto itself, the post-Civil War Supreme Court held that the United States consists of only one sovereign nation with respect to foreign affairs and international relations.
- Additionally, the doctrine of separation of powers functions as a limitation on each branch of the federal government's exercise of sovereign power.
- Each is sovereign over its own affairs.
- As a result, although the federal government is recognized as sovereign and has supreme power over the matters within its control, the US constitutional system also recognizes the concept of "state sovereignty," wherein certain matters are susceptible to government regulation, but only at the state level, and not the federal level.
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- Currently, 44 sovereign nations in the world have monarchs acting as heads of state, 16 of which are Commonwealth realms that recognize Queen Elizabeth II of England as their head of state.
- A monarch that has few or no legal restraints in state and political matters is referred to as an absolute monarchy, a form of autocracy.
- Currently, 44 sovereign nations in the world have monarchs acting as heads of state—16 of those are Commonwealth realms that recognize Queen Elizabeth II as their head of state.
- At the time, the vast majority of European states were monarchies, with political power held either by the monarch or the aristocracy.
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- In that state, each person would have a right, or license, to everything in the world.
- Any power exercised by this authority cannot be resisted because the protector's sovereign power derives from individuals' surrendering their own sovereign power for protection.
- The individuals are thereby the authors of all decisions made by the sovereign.
- According to Hobbes, the sovereign must control civil, military, judicial, and ecclesiastical powers.
- His' conception of natural rights extended from his conception of man in a "state of nature."