Sovereignty can generally be defined as supreme authority. Sovereignty entails hierarchy within a state as well as external autonomy for states.

Sovereignty, in political theory, the ultimate overseer, or authority, in the decision-making process of the state. Although the term was originally ...

3 дня назад · the power of a country to control its own government. Talks are being held about who should have sovereignty over the island.

1. a : supreme power especially over a body politic b : freedom from external control : autonomy c : controlling influence 2. one that is sovereign

Sovereignty is the concept for the highest, independent power in a given territory. Stroud's Judicial Dictionary defines sovereignty as a form of government.

Supreme authority in a state. In any state sovereignty is vested in the institution, person, or body having the ultimate authority to impose law on everyone ...

When national sovereignty is discussed, the first definition applies, and it refers in particular to independence, understood as the freedom of a collective.

Sovereignty is supreme authority. It involves authority over all others within its field of operation, and the absence of any other superior authority in ...

At its core, sovereignty is typically taken to mean the possession of absolute authority within a bounded territorial space. There is essentially an internal ...