Word: sovereignity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Constitution was adopted. How had it come about? Working forward from the Constitutional Convention, and backward from the failure of the League of Nations, Clarence Streit found the demon: national sovereignty. So long as nations dealt with each other as government-to-government, he decided, no league of sovereign states, no system of pacts or alliances between sovereign states, would work. But when the people of the different governments were united in a Federal Union, with the states retaining their rights and differences, the gain to the world could be as great as was the gain...
...Spanish democracy of the bull ring manifested itself and caused a small, black bull, like Ferdinand, to be sent to spend the rest of its life among the flowers and the cows, and Lorenzo Garza, El Magnifico, to be fined 1,000 pesos for making obscene gestures to the sovereign aficionados of Mexico...
While Dictator Francisco Franco palavered along the Mediterranean with Dictator Mussolini and Marshal Pétain (see p. 27) his onetime sovereign added another egg to the Spanish omelet. Dandified, talkative King Alfonso XIII, deathly ill with angina pectoris in Rome, announced that a month ago he had abdicated his vacant throne in favor of his son, 27-year-old Don Juan, Prince of the Asturias...
...High Commissioner is a diplomatic officer, represents Britain when she deals with her dominion as a colleague. The Governor General is an alter ego of the King, represents Britain when she deals with her dominion as a sovereign...
...under Henry VIII. Henry, wrote Lord Campbell, "when he wished to throw off the authority of the Pope, thinking that as long as the name of St. Thomas should remain in the calendar men would be stimulated by his example to brave the ecclesiastical authority of the Sovereign, instructed his Attorney General to file a quo warranto information against him [Thomas a Becket" for usurping the office of a Saint. . . ." Verdict: guilty of rebellion and treason...