Sovereignty

Sovereignty

1. Definitions

   • Leaving one group and being alone.
   • University Definitions
     • David Strachan-Morris (University of Leicester)-The ultimate power to make decisions.
       • Security
     • Emma from Student Recruitment (University of London-Goldsmiths). A right for people to control the government.
     • (University of Aberystwyth)- Individual or body has supreme authority to make decisions in.
   • The full right and power of the governing body to govern without interference from outside agencies.(In search of sovereignty podcast).
     • That means no other power or individual or government or entity anywhere else on the planet can supersede the actions of the rulers or ruling body of that sovereign state.
       • Old fashioned, divisive and confusing (Joe Queenan).
   • The supreme authority to enact laws.
   • The right not to be interfered with by other states.

2. Infiltrate

   • Catalonia
     • Spanish citizens have an issue with Catalonians wishing to seek independence
   • Canada (Quebec)
     • French speaking Canadians have been in search for independence for decades.
   • Basque
     • Basque is a region that straddles the Western Pyranees in adjacent parts of Northern Spain and Southwestern France
       • Linguistically, Basque is unrelated to the other language of Europe and to any other known living language.
       • The Basques are indigenous to, and primarily inhabit, the Basque country
       • 93.2%(700,300) are in the Spanish area of the Basque Country and the remaining 6.8%(51,200) are in the French portion.
   • Also...
     • california
       • the American state has expressed a desire to leave the United States (US).
     • Kurds
       • Between 25 and 35 Million Kurds inhabit a mountainous region straddling the borders of Turkey, Iaq, Syria, Iran, and Armenia
         • They make up the Fourth-largest Ethnic group in the Middle-East.
         • They have NEVER obtained a permanent Nation State.
     • The Cornish
   • Macedonia
     • They are a regional and historical population group of ethnic Greeks, inhabitingor originating mainly from the Greek region of Macedonia, in Nortehrn Greece.

3. Origins

   • French jurist/lawyer, Jean Bodin first wrote the word Sovereignty in the 16th Century
     • Bodin and other scholars believe the term has Greek and Roman roots.
       • DEMOKRATIA
       • IMPERIUM (authority to supremely command.)
         • From Latin words such as Empire.
   • Autonomia (state sovereignty) can be traced to the Peace Ttreatrety of Westphalia in 1648 that ended the European continents 30 year war that had cost 8 million lives.
     • autonomous individual states.
   • The word came from Old French (SOVERAIN). It then developed into SOVEREINETE.
     • It then became adapted into English (SOVEREIGN).
       • In Late English it became SOVEREIGNTY

4. Within the UK, sovereignty is based on Nationalism.

   • The traditional British constitutional concept of sovereignty is the interaction of 3 great sovereignties, THE ROYAL SOVEREIGNY, THE LEGAL SOVEREIGNTY OF PARLIAMENT and the SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE.
     • The last is the greatest!

5. Brexit

   • Brexit SUPPORTERS argues that the EU threatens sovereignty and stifles growth.
   • Opponents counter that EU membership strengthens trade, investment, and the UKs standing in the world.

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