Sovereignty

In the articles, the authors highlight important notions such as “sovereignty,” “recognition,” “separateness,” “domestic dependent nations,” “dominate the physical space,” “reform the minds,” and “absorb the economic”. The authors argue that the legal and juridical sovereignty of American Indian provides them with the right to maintain and protect their traditional distinct political and cultural communities. In this pretext, to deal with the growing environmental problems at an alarming level,…

bodies in the newly created United States, to being a sovereign entity that is just as powerful – if not more so – than the legislative bodies under which it was once ruled. With the rise of corporate sovereignty, politics and the market have become deeply intertwined, so much so that the sovereignty of the corporation now poses a substantial threat by undermining democracy to support their ever-expanding empires. As Sklar states in The Corporate Reconstruction and the…

There is an argument in international relations that state sovereignty is being undermined by globalisation. Scholars argue new global powers are bringing about the end of state sovereignty as states are losing the ability to effectively govern their own societies and economies. (Ohmae 1995, Scholte 2000 in McGrew 2014: 16) This essay however will attempt to reaffirm the importance of the sovereign state despite globalisation, initially through examining some arguments for the proposed idea, and…

This is because Parliamentary sovereignty is essentially sovereignty of the government because the government controls Parliament. This is known as an ‘elective dictatorship’, a term coined by Lord Hailsham. This is linked to the ease with which the constitution can be altered, as most of the codified…

or a sufficient security system. Individual colonies each exhibited many aspects of sovereignty, but were not completely self-sufficient, and as a whole the colonies did not have a common goal in mind, meaning they were not united. Colonies such as Massachusetts were close to being sovereign while colonies such as Virginia were more tied to England. However, no single colony exhibited all aspects of sovereignty, as well as the colonies as a whole. Although the colonies in America were not…

Sovereignty is the full right and power of a governing body over itself, without any interference from outside sources or bodies. I do agree that every country can decide what the best interest is for them and their people. I do not agree that believing that the best interest for their country is exterminating a race/religion. When other countries believe that genocide is the best interest for their country, neighboring countries should step in. They are human lives, I understand countries did…

many forms of government such as absolute monarch, democracy, and dictatorship. In the past most of the world was monarch and still is today. Popular sovereignty was not introduced to the world until 1762 and did not take action until 1776 when America adopted it. However, it is quickly spreading throughout Europe today. Absolutism and popular sovereignty have many differences but are the two most common types of government on Earth. Absolutism is known for being under a single leader. Many…

Lear’s identity is directly correlated with his Kingship. That would make him a driving political force in Britain. In Munson’s “The Marks of Sovereignty” The Division of the Kingdom and the Division of the Mind in King Lear”, she pays special attention to the word sovereignty in context to Lear. The first of which is “implied control over political territory.” (Munson 13). In this definition, the term holds a political meaning applied to nations and rulers…

ceremonies because they are not seen as socially and politically alive (Agamben, 8). Focaultian Biopower In his analysis, Agamben refers to the theory of biopower put forward by social theorist Michael Foucault. In Foucaultian terminology when sovereignty ended, biopolitics began (Foucault, 142). With biopolitics, human life becomes the target of the organizational and institutional power of the State (Foucault, 143). Foucault expresses that sovereign power was the power to “take life & let…

political communities. Secondly, the rapid increase in globalization has caused state sovereignty to decline. Lastly, the increase in transnational corporations has had a negative impact on states. The weakening of state power has created a…