The privateer must have received its commission from a public, national, sovereign power.
Secondly, the ballot conveying this equal sap from the root, by an equal election or rotation, into the branches of magistracy or sovereign power.
Indeed, there can be no principle of the laws of nations plainer than this, that when a ship is once commissioned by a sovereign power, no other power can look into the antecedents of the ship.
The next question which presents itself for our consideration is, Was the Alabama properly commissioned by a sovereign power?
To coin money is another act of sovereign power; but no State is at liberty to coin money.
Our question, then, will be reduced to this, Was she commissioned by a sovereign power?
The authority of a sovereign power to govern or legislate; the right of making or enforcing laws; the power or right of exercising authority.
It is of the very essence of sovereign power, that you may execute that power, or not execute it--that you may execute it when you will, and how you will.
A sovereign power, as to any object, includes a right to any means, and all the means applicable to the attainment of the object.
The acts of Congress, it is said, are declared by the constitution to be the supreme law of the land: and the power which can make the supreme law of the land, is necessarily a sovereign power.
The conqueror took possession of Cherasco, within 10 miles of Turin, and there dictated the terms on which the King of Sardinia was to be permitted to retain any shadow of sovereign power.
As yet he had been but a spectator of the Revolution, destined to pave his own path to sovereign power; it was not long before circumstances called on him to play a part.
In after-days, when Napoleon had climbed to sovereign power, many flatterers were willing to give him a lofty pedigree.
Even before Buonaparte proclaimed himself Consul for life, it appears that, throughout a considerable part of the French army, strong symptoms of jealousy had been excited by the rapidity of his advance to sovereign power.
The Division of War into Public and Private, and the Nature of Sovereign Power 55 BOOK II.
Attainder and confiscation are acts of sovereign power, not acts of legislation.
To coin money is another exercise of sovereign power; but no State is at liberty to coin money.
And then for You, Citt, with your Mouldy Records, your Coordinate Estates, and your Sovereign Power of the People.
First, the King is One of the Three Estates; Secondly, the Sovereign Power is in the People.
He was adopted by Pius; and, on the accession of Marcus, was invested with an equal share of sovereign power.
Whilst he thus abandoned the reins of empire to these unworthy favorites, he valued nothing in sovereign power, except the unbounded license of indulging his sensual appetites.
Some are of opinion that he was influenced in his choice of that number by that of the birds which had foretold that sovereign power should be his when the auguries were taken.
They say that Romulus resented this less than the event demanded, either because partnership in sovereign power is never cordially kept up, or because he thought that he had been deservedly slain.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sovereign power" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
