Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nationalism, "the religion of the absolutely sovereign state," also came in for attack. Any new radicalism must take into account that war for national ends will surely kill liberty as well as men, Thomas stated...
...with Gandhi. World government is an abstraction dear to many, but Jaspers insists that it could only be established by conquest and maintained by despotism. Harshly he calls the U.N. "a basic untruth." Its executive power depends "not on the United Nations but solely on the policies of the sovereign powers...
...would break my heart to celebrate independence for Tanganyika alone." Nyerere's reason is simple: as a matter of national pride, newly independent states might be reluctant to yield new sovereignty to a federation. "After we've taken our seat at the U.N. as a sovereign independent state, have hoisted our flag and are singing our national anthem, and then Kenya and Uganda become free, shall we then say, 'Boys, we will lower these flags, abolish these anthems and vacate our seats'? Why, that goes against human nature...
American churchmen, like American politicians, are not leaders but followers, and their trail blazer clearly is not the free and sovereign individual but, rather, "the organizational man." The promoter of church union appeals to churchmen as the promoter of the business merger or industrial combine appeals to politicians...
Basic Catholic doctrine on the ordering of society was laid down by Pope Gelasius I in a letter to the Byzantine Emperor Anastasius I in 494: "Two there are, august Emperor, by which this world is ruled on title of original and sovereign right-the consecrated authority of the priesthood and the royal power." This, says Father Murray, established a "freedom of the church" in the spiritual sphere that served to limit the power of government on the one hand, and on the other brought the moral consensus of the people to bear upon the King...