Sentences with phrase «sovereign over their territories»

As in the Carlist Wars, frontiers are blurring and local powers are no longer necessarily sovereign over their territories.

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Not only are its people more polarized than ever over Puerto Rico's status question — whether to become a sovereign nation, become a state of the U.S. or stay as it is; it is the most impoverished North American territory, with an external debt of over $ 7 billion, an unemployment rate of more than 20 per cent, 65 per cent of its people on federal food stamps and 38 per cent who have an income below the poverty line.

And a European sovereign federation would have to exist along the four dimensions mentioned earlier: a democratically legitimate government able to act swiftly and efficiently on economic relations and equipped with a «monopoly on the legitimate use of force» over a specific territory — a common army.

The very people who are worried about national sovereignty say nothing about American bases and the sovereign control that the Americans have over these bases in our territory, on our soil, but they talk all the time about the loss of sovereignty.

It will be a declaration, in my deliberate judgment, that the sovereign power of the people of the United States and Union must hereafter remain incapable of action over territory to which their rights in full dominion have been asserted with the most rigorous authority, and bow to a jurisdiction hitherto unknown, unacknowledged by any department of the government, denied by all through all time, unclaimed till now, and now declared to have been called into exercise not by any change in our Constitution, the laws of the Union or the States, but preexistent and paramount over the supreme law of the land.

Indian tribes retain important sovereign powers over their members and their territory, subject to the plenary power of Congress; and