Word: sovereignity
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...necklace and a scepter. After King shouted, "Long live the heavyweight king! Long live the king!", six trumpeters dressed in Elizabethan tunics blared a fanfare, and Ali placed a crown, studded with what King described as "baubles, rubies and fabulous doodads," on Tyson's head. Muttered the clearly embarrassed sovereign: "Does this mean I'm going to get bigger purses?" A more urgent question for Tyson: When he faces his first challenger, Tyrell Biggs, on Oct. 16 in Atlantic City, who will crown whom...
...Ambrosiano, Italy's worst postwar banking scandal; by the country's highest tribunal, the Court of Cassation; in Rome. In voiding arrest warrants for the Cicero, Ill.-born prelate and two senior Vatican bank officials, the court ruled that the 1929 Lateran Treaty, which recognizes Vatican City as a sovereign state, protects "central bodies" of the church from "every interference" by the Italian government...
...battle was joined on the most fundamental conflict between the sovereign states. There were plenty of other differences -- between Northern and Southern states, commercial and agricultural states, coastal and inland states, slave and nonslave states -- but the basic issue was the comparative voting strengths of large states and small. Most of the big states demanded a powerful national government; the small ones feared coercion and insisted on states' rights. And neither side put much trust in the other...
James Madison hated the little microphone clipped to his waistcoat, he hated the way the cameramen sniggered at his height, and he hated talking in 20- second sound bites. But he was politician enough to recognize the importance of Good Morning, 13 Sovereign States. Two minutes to explain the Virginia Plan, a few banal questions, and the ordeal would be over. Madison remembered his instructions: no Locke, no Montesquieu, no Plutarch. Just simple declarative sentences, a confident smile and don't fiddle with your wig. "Jimmy, all you got to do is emote," his media consultant had told him. "Flash...
...this 200th anniversary of the founding of the constitution, it must be repeated again and again that in the system of checks and balances devised by the Founding Fathers "the people" ultimately are sovereign. Elected officials rule at their pleasure and on their behalf. It was correctly assumed that the people would play a greater, if less explicit role in the governing of their lives than any of the three branches of government that magnificent document created. It was that obligation Americans neglected after they twice elected Ronald Reagan to the presidency. If any good is to come...