Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French side of his office where the co-Prince could not hear him, and announced that he no longer recognized the leaders of Andorra's Council of the Valleys, who governed in his name. The Pyrenees principality promptly threatened to get even by issuing new postage stamps franked "Sovereign Republic of Andorra...
...memory of Abraham's sacrifice of a male sheep in place of his son Ishmael, ancestor of all Arabs. One ram, the most important of all, is ceremoniously knifed by the Sultan, who is regarded by the Arabs and Berbers of French Morocco as their spiritual and temporal sovereign. On Aid el Kebir last week, the knife was wielded not by Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef (who had reigned since he succeeded his father in 1927), but by a new Sultan, Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa. Ben Youssef had made the mistake of antagonizing the French, and was unceremoniously banished...
What enables the wise sovereign and good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge...
...while preserving the federal structure of the Union and carefully limiting the powers of Congress in domestic legislation, the men of 1787 deliberately made "the states in their united character," i.e., the Federal Government, entirely sovereign in dealing with foreign nations-the laws and reserved powers of the states notwithstanding. In doing that, the framers gave the Federal Government an immense power...
...requiring legislation before any treaty provision would take effect as internal law,* it would seriously slow up the processing of many common types of treaties. The "which would be valid" clause, a return to the spirit of the Articles of Confederation, would make the Federal Government less than sovereign...