Sovereignty

Examples

• The sovereignty of the king is therefore easily understood. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• If that is the way human societies organize sovereignty, the sooner we face that fact the better. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He described this republic; shewed how it gave privilege to each individual in the state, to rise to consequence, and even to temporary sovereignty. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Behind the parties has grown up the political machine--falsely called a machine, the very opposite of one in fact, a natural sovereignty, I believe. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The methods of the Chicago Commission would require a tyranny, a powerful, centralized sovereignty which could command with majesty and silence the rebel. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• And now to my boon, said the King, which I ask not with one jot the less confidence, that thou hast refused to acknowledge my lawful sovereignty. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The poorer nobility hailed the return of sovereignty, as an event which would restore them to their power and rights, now lost. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• For a time natural leadership and nominal position coincided, and the administration became in a measure a real sovereignty. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It was a complete recognition of the unalienable sovereignty of states, and a repudiation of the idea of an over-riding commonweal of mankind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• That can be effective only so long as the working-class is without sovereignty. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The Dardanelles to be internationalized, and Ottoman sovereignty to be recognized only in Turkish districts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• That is why I ventured in the preceding chapter to describe it as a natural sovereignty which had grown up behind a mechanical form of government. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• If the important sovereignty of a country were in what is called its parliamentary life, then the day of Plato's philosopher-kings would be far off indeed. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• At the same time, the idea of national sovereignty has never been as accentuated in politics as it is at the present time. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I may be like you in some things, uncle, but I do not think I have your ambition, as I will be quite content with my island sovereignty of Melnos. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Its structure and the laws of its life are, I believe, typical of all real sovereignties. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

Edited by Henry