Word: sovereignity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some observers it appeared that the Administration was casually trying to brush off a mere Republican State Governor who persisted in being tiresome about a trivial matter. But the outraged Governor continued to badger and challenge the Federal Government for his full, undiluted, sovereign State's rights. Each side stood stubbornly and firmly on its dignity. But Tom Dewey, who cut his political eyeteeth on just such gang-busting as the Lepke case, seemed to be standing on the firmer legal ground. The next move was up to Washington-and what seemed to be at stake was something bigger...
...that dual system we follow two different principles. In the Commonwealth, we follow to the limit the principle of decentralization. The members of the group maintain the unbreakable spiritual bonds which are stronger than steel, but in all matters of government and their internal and external concerns, they are sovereign states...
Order and Disorder. What Western readers may get from The Wisdom of Confucius, and what Chinese do not emphasize, is the sense of constant hazard in Confucius' search for a wise sovereign...
...Long in the President's chair might utilize it to subvert most things that free men call desirable. But Professor Commager notes that over the course of the years legislatures have generally had their way. The Supreme Court has often declared a law unconstitutional only to have the sovereign people cancel out the "judicial nullification" by amendment, or by new law, or by judicial reversal obtained by the appointment of new judges, or by political pressure from the White House...
...Sovereign Responsibility. The U.S., Great Britain, the U.S.S.R. and China had accepted, in principle, their responsibility for setting up and backing some kind of international organization after the war. The responsibility would be all the heavier, the task all the harder because the Big Four had pledged themselves to preserve the "sovereign equality" of all member nations, large or small. If that term was to have real meaning, the job could not be done with a big stick. In effect the big nations, including the U.S., would have to underwrite the security and dignity of the little nations...