“Sovereignty” means “supremacy in respect of power, dominion or rank; supreme dominion authority or rule”. “Sovereignty” is the right to govern. The term “sovereignty” as applied to states implies “supreme, absolute, uncontrollable power by which any state is governed, and which resides within itself, whether residing in a single individual or a number of individuals, or in the whole body of the people.”
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