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  1. May 31, 2003 · Sovereignty, though its meanings have varied across history, also has a core meaning, supreme authority within a territory. It is a modern notion of political authority. Historical variants can be understood along three dimensions — the holder of sovereignty, the absoluteness of sovereignty, and the internal and external dimensions of ...

  2. Jan 28, 2018 · Sovereignty simply means supreme authority while sovereign rights is a term used for a collective but limited set of rights and power. It is easy to confuse sovereign rights with sovereignty simply because of lexical, phonemic, and typographical similarities. The confusion simply stems from the seeming “resemblance” of these two words.

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  4. Mar 15, 2021 · Sovereignty,” one of the foundational principles of international law, has deep significance both from the vantage point of indigenous peoples “struggle for recognition” and its direct bearing on the science of international law.

    • Rashwet Shrinkhal
    • 2021
  5. Mar 10, 2016 · Sovereignty as a Keystone. Both modifications proposed by this essay concern changes to what many hold to be the most profound foundation of the international order, Footnote 1 the concept of state sovereignty, which in contemporary thought and practice has been largely understood in association with the Westphalian principle that forbids armed interference by one state in the internal affairs ...

    • Amitai Etzioni
    • 2016
  6. Sep 25, 2020 · The relationship between sovereignty and human rights is one of the most contested questions in legal theory and practice. It has been mostly conceived as antagonistic in contemporary discussions. Sovereignty is often deemed as a threat to human rights of individuals, especially when a state violating human rights invokes sovereignty as defense ...

    • liuhan@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
  7. A. Introduction. 1 The principle of sovereignty, ie of supreme authority within a territory, is a pivotal principle of modern international law. What counts as sovereignty depends on the nature and structure of the international legal order and vice-versa. 2 Most of the other, if not all institutions and principles of international law rely ...

  8. Quick Reference. N. 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 else in the state and the power to alter any pre-existing law. How and by whom the authority is exercised varies according to the political nature of the state.

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