Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...free speech by men in public institutions, but its right interpretation does place on all such men a higher that ordinary responsibility to the Government and the people. The wings of thought are not to be clipped by rules or conventions, nor crippled by traditions, but speech, the sovereign vehicle of thought, must be curbed properly if the destiny of the nation is to be worked out along lines designed by the founders of the Republic...
There has never been a treaty more radical in its remodelling of international society. The Peace of Westphalia gave the coup de grace to the idea of a united Europe in the Holy Roman Empire and inaugurated an age of sovereign territorial states. The Peace of Utrecht inaugurated an age of commercial and colonial rivalry by express recognition of the principle of the balance of power. The Treaty of Vienna sought to establish a concert of Europe, but with recognition of dynastic interests, it ignored the rising tide of nationalism and democracy. It remained for the present treaty to recognize...
...government by discussion, not a government by ukase; a government of delegated powers, not a government by divine right; a government of three separate branches, not a government of absolutism. Here the people are citizens, not subjects; their chosen leaders are their servants, not their masters. Here the only sovereign is the people, and their deliberate will the ultimate law of the land. Boston Transcript...
...national self-determination. This principle, in short, provides that every racial or linguistic group possessing a sense of national unity should freely choose the alternative of amalgamating itself in some larger state, of becoming an autonomous fragment of some larger state, or of assuming the status and privileges of sovereign independence. But while it is comparatively easy to take an outline map and to mark off upon it the boundaries for a Jugo-Slavic, a Little Russian, a Great Russian, a Czech, a Polish, a Greek and an Armenian state, it is not so easy to put this division into...
...great questions of the war are settled. What China wants is the permission from the great powers of Europe to raise her tariff. The present Chinese import duty is calculated on a five to ten per cent basis. The government needs money badly, and although supposed to be a sovereign state, China is not allowed to raise her own tariff without the consent of the treaty powers. By joining the Allies the hopes to win their support in raising her tariff...