RE: Who Are The Palestinians? Part 2
SUBTOPIC: Sovereignty
⁜→ P F Tinmore, et al,
BLUF: The terms "individual sovereignty" and "state sovereignty" are similar concepts but not the same thing.
Nothing in your statement is correct. Absolutely nothing.
Are you saying that the nationals in a defined territory are not the sovereigns of that territory?
(COMMENT)
Individual sovereignty is about civil emancipation. That is personal ownership (sometimes called self-ownership) (I am my own man, not a slave. I am an adult not subordinate to my parents.) Sometimes, a "juvenile" (under the age of 18) needs to justify to a court why they should be determined sovereign. There are different applications to the term "sovereignty. From Black's Law Dictionary® • Ninth Edition:
sovereign, n. (Be) 1. A person, body, or state vested with
independent and supreme authority. 2. The ruler of an
independent state. - Also spelled sovran. See SOVEREIGNTY.
sovereign equality. Int'l Jaw. The principle that nations
have the right to enjoy territorial integrity and political
independence, free from intervention by other nations, .
• The United Nations "is based on the principle of the
sovereign equality of all its Members." UN Charter art.
2, ~ 1. [Cases: International Law C::; 10.45(1).]
sovereign people. (17c) The political body consisting of
the collective number of citizens and qualified electors
who possess the powers of sovereignty and exercise
them through their chosen representatives.
sovereign state. (17c) 1. A state that possesses an independent
existence, being complete in itself, without
being merely part of a larger whole to whose government
it is subject. 2. A political community whose
members are bound together by the tie of common
subjection to some central authority, whose commands
those members must obey. Also termed independent
state. Cf. client state, nonsovereign state under STATE.
[Cases: International Law ~3.]
"The essence of statehood is sovereignty. the principle that
each nation answers only to its own domestic order and is
not accountable to a larger international community, save
only to the extent it has consented to do so. Sovereign
states are thus conceived as hermetically sealed units,
atoms that spin around an international orbit, sometimes
colliding, sometimes cooperating, but always separate and
apart." David j. Bederman, International Law Frameworks
50 (2001)
To answer your question more specifically, to be "sovereigns of that territory" - as you can glean from above must be - " A political community whose members are bound together by the tie of common subjection to some
central authority, whose commands those members must obey. But that is unique to a specific government. The US Congress is a central authority that can create Federal Law that must be obeyed. I am sovereign only in the sense that I may cast my ballot for a representative. Neither I nor the representative can, individually, dictate law that "must be obeyed." However, the HM the King of Saudi Arabia can create law and can commute sentences by a Saudi Court. HM holds the power of life and death. Why! Because HE IS a Sovereign over the land.
I hope this clarifies things for you.
Most Respectfully,
R
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