#sovereign

The whole basis of the Constitution was a restriction of power, and the whole basis of the federalist system was that there was not one sovereign centralized power from which all authority flows. ↗

— Roy Moore

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Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

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With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

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We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

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