I do not read that phrase as abrogating existing sovereignties in Africa.
There were more than three hundred territorial sovereignties in Germany when the new constitution of the union was adopted at the Congress of Vienna in 1815.
Distinct sovereignties were in actual existence, whose cordial union was essential to the welfare and happiness of all.
It speaks to us through the processes of governing in the sovereignties of 48 States.
The expressions of this dialogue would have been humiliating to the smallest of the "square-league" sovereignties of the Continent.
It remitted the government to the condition of the old confederation, acting upon sovereignties instead of individuals.
We have sovereignties moving within a sovereignty.
The sovereignties are different; the allegiance is different; the right, too, may be different.
This furnishes the following leading fact: that before, and at the time of the adoption of this constitution, the creation of new political sovereignties within the limits of the old United States was contemplated.
I think there can be no more satisfactory evidence adduced or required of the first part of the position, that the terms "new States" did intend new political sovereignties within the limits of the old United States.
Nothing less than a power, changing all the proportion of the weight and influence possessed by the potent sovereignties composing this Union.
But now let the same map be again unfolded, with all the lines that mark the distinct sovereignties of the States.
The difficulty in the way of its adoption was its supposed tendency to absorb, and perhaps to annihilate, the sovereignties of the States.
All crowns and sovereignties whatsoever, where would they in a few brief years be?
This is justly regarded as the greatest practical problem, the thing all manner of sovereignties and governments are here to accomplish: what is it that will accomplish this?
In point of fact, the former mediatized states have been virtually incorporated with Prussia; while the semi-independent sovereignties of the south have been reduced to the position of the former mediatized states.
Their sovereignties are virtually absorbed in the crown of Prussia.
The various Mongol Sovereignties in Asia and Eastern Europe.
Sidenote: The various Mongol Sovereignties in Asia and Eastern Europe.
For two generations statesmen and jurists debated the relation of the central to the local sovereignties with no result, for words alone could decide no such issue.
That was the fundamental purpose which underlay the adoption of a written constitution whose object was to keep local sovereignties intact, especially at the South.
How can those States be sovereignties which admit a power above them, possessing the right of coercion?
The thirteen sovereignties possessing all the power, gave to Congress a certain portion of Legislative authority; but they certainly could give to the Executive, or any other body, the power to make Treaties.
This constitution had precisely given it to the Executive, subjoining the advice and consent of the Senate; and in this particular, and in no other, had the individual sovereignties delegated all their power without limitation.
Within the limits of the constitution two sovereignties cannot exist; and yet what practical odds does it make, if a State may become sovereign by simply declaring herself so?
The leading objections to the new Constitution were such as to show the general belief that the State sovereignties were to be absorbed into the general government in all matters of national concern.
Before the Keys had been many months in Leo's possession, the establishment of his own family in the two fairest sovereignties of Italy became the object for which he was to "Cry havock, and let slip the dogs of war.
The powers delegated to the State sovereigntieswere to be exercised by themselves, not by a distinct and independent sovereignty created by them.
The new state had forced itself into the family of sovereignties somewhat to the displeasure of most of the Lord's anointed.
After the death of Constantine, the vast empire over which his sway had extended was separated into distinct sovereignties for his sons and nephews.
By Narsinga Bisnagar is to be understood, which was one of the sovereignties into which the Decan or southern peninsula of India was then divided--E.
A government that relies on thirteen independent sovereignties for the means of its existence, is a solecism in theory, and a mere nullity in practice.
Nothing less than a power changing all the proportions of the weight and influence possessed by the potent sovereignties composing this Union.
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