Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world preoccupied with newer conflicts, the sound and fury serves as an apt reminder that one older problem remains unsolved. Two decades after World War II, Germany is still divided. Its onetime capital languishes as an occupied enclave. Whatever the legalisms involved, it seemed somehow strange that a sovereign West Germany actually had to ask the U.S., Great Britain and France for permission for its legislature to sit in West Berlin...
...another point. The point concerns national sovereignty. The Russians and French argue that the U.N. has no power to make any member do anything it does not want to do, such as pay for peacekeeping. And they have a case: the U.N. was conceived as a loose association of sovereign states. But at the same time it also carried the ill-defined hint of being an embryonic world government and the hope that the members would sacrifice their sovereign interests for the sake of international cooperation. That hope, however noble, was premature. Among other realities, it ignored two developments...
Your aggressive determination to wipe out the popular democratic government of the sovereign nation of Taiwan before it has a chance to exercise its legitimate right of annexing the mainland, compounded by your deceitful and transparent agreement with that Great Human tarian, the Generalissimo, that the mainland and the island are indeed one country, has proved you unworthy of sitting in that Great Hall of Truth, the Security Council of the UN, where the Great "Toughminded" Liberal Mr. Stevenson has to put up with the constant lies and distortions of your partner in crime, the Soviet Union, who has always...
...this very moment your front group in America, the Student Nonviolent Chinese Communists, are carrying out your orders to blackjack the Johnson Administration into sending government troops into the sovereign state of Alabama, whose courageous struggle for independence in the last century was so brutally crushed by your own Abe Lin-coln, and which under the brave leadership of the Wallace Lama is now engaged in a life and death struggle to preserve its quaint indigenous way of life from utter destruction at the hands of your agents, the Northern aggressors. All this to cover up your ruthless invasion...
...Sovereign Prerogative. Frankfurter saw the Constitution as "a vessel out of which meaning is drawn and into which meaning is poured." Vast power to alter that meaning, he pointed out, rested with nine fallible men: "The Supreme Court is the Constitution." For that very reason, Frankfurter feared that lifetime judges, free of popular veto, might easily impose their own notions of "justice." He warned repeatedly that diffusion of power is the basic premise of U.S. Government. In public policy, he said (borrowing a phrase from his hero Justice Holmes), "the sovereign prerogative of choice" should always rest with elected compromisers...