Quotes About Sovereignty

Each state enjoys sovereign power.

No government knows any limits to its power except the endurance of the people.

True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us.

King has absolute power. And what he has given he can taken away.

In the age of globalization pooled sovereignty means more power, not less.

True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.

We start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers.

You have to take power. No one gives it.

One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character.

Law! What do I care about the law? Ain't I got the power?

In Islam, the legislative power and competence to establish laws belong exclusively to God Almighty.

All power is inherent in the people.

There is no man who hates the power of the crown more, or who has a worse opinion of the Person to whom it belongs than I.

The power under the Constitution will always be in the people.

The great themes of Canadian history are as follows: Keeping the Americans out, keeping the French in, and trying to get the Natives to somehow disappear.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

The United States is not concerned with this thing called 'democracy', no matter how many times every American president uses the word each time he opens his mouth. As noted in the Introduction, since 1945 the US has attempted to overthrow more than fifty governments, most of which were democratically elected, and grossly interfered in democratic elections in at least thirty countries.

He that hath liberty ought to kepe it wel, for nothyng is better than liberty.

A body of merchants had been transformed into the de facto sovereign rulers of much of northern India. As one contemporary observer put it: 'Through many unexpected contingencies, an incorporated society of private traders [has become] a cabinet of Asiatic princes.'65 The result was what Adam Smith would call 'a strange absurdity' – a Company State.66

THAT A FREE MAN IS A SOVEREIGN, BUT THAT A SOVEREIGN CANNOT TAKE "TIPS.

Christ counts it his honour, that he is a king of a willing people, and not of slaves. He comes to make you free, not to bring you into bondage, to make you kings, not vassals. None

Far different is the power of our sovereignty. It can interfere with no one's faith, prescribe forms of worship for no one's observance, inflict no punishment but after well-ascertained guilt, the result of investigation under rules prescribed by the Constitution itself.

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

En lugar de simplemente gobernar la creación, Dios también se relaciona con ella íntimamente, sin oprimirla ni militarizarla, sin aplastar la libertad humana