Political Sovereignty The Supreme Authority In The United States

This new book argues that sovereignty, generally defined as the supreme authority in a political community, has a neglected democratic dimension that highlights the expansion of substantive individual rights and freedoms at home and abroad. Offering an historically based assessment of sovereignty that neither reifies the state nor argues sovereignty and the state are eroding under globalizing processes, the book maintains that sovereignty norms have continually changed throughout the history of the sovereign state. Matthew Weinert links international legal developments that restrict and coordinate sovereignty practices with an ethical undercurrent in International Relations, one such example is the creation of the International Criminal Court in 2002. Drawing on seven additional historical case studies, he outlines how campaigns informed by a commitment to the common good, or at the very least by opposition to harmful state policies, can be and have been efficacious in transforming the normative basis of sovereignty. Democratic Sovereignty will be of great interest to students working in the fields of sovereignty, international history, ethics, globalization and international relations.

Excerpt from State Sovereignty: Rebellion Against the United States by the People of a State; Is Its Political Suicide It is proposed to discuss these great propositions with candor, and in a manner, it is hoped, which will tend to impress upon the public mind such clear views in relation thereto as that the arts of party politicians and demagogues may never again, by exciting feelings of State pride, sap the foundation of the people's loyalty to their Government of the United States. In 1798, ambitious men, to promote a party triumph, induced numbers, and ultimately a majority of the people, to believe that the State Governments were in danger of destruction from the encroachments of the central Government. Then, and thus, was created "The States' Rights Party." This skillful effort of party strategy produced the famous resolutions of 1798, passed by the Legislatures of Virginia and Kentucky, proclaiming dogmas in relation to the powers of the States which, without a very forced construction, laid the foundation of Nullification by South Carolina in 1832, and culminated in the "Slave Barons'" Rebellion in 1860. This is the teaching of history. It is referred to now only as a warning voice, and to prepare politicians and partisans, as well as the people, not to receive the dogma of "State Sovereignty" as embracing a truth worthy of all acceptance, and of so sacred a character as to forbid questioning or examination. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Written during a moment in English history when the political and social structures were in flux and open to interpretation, Leviathan played an essential role in the development of the modern world.

This volume explores moral and legal issues relating to sovereignty by addressing foundational questions about its nature, examining state sovereignty between states, and dealing with post 9/11 developments in the U.S., potentially destabilizing received views of democratic sovereignty. With essays addressing foundational, state and international sovereignty, the book focuses on Post 9/11 developments including the profusion of secret national security programs, including those pertaining to the interrogation, rendition, and detention of terror suspects; signal intercepts and meta-data analysis; and targeted killing of irregular militants; prompting questions regarding the legitimacy of executive power in this arena.

In the wake of the collapse of the Soviet bloc, it is timely to ask what continuing role, if any, the concept of sovereignty can and should play in the emerging &"new world order.&" The aim of Law, Power, and the Sovereign State is both to counter the argument that the end of the sovereign state is close at hand and to bring scholarship on sovereignty into the post-Cold War era. The study assesses sovereignty as status and as power and examines the issue of what precisely constitutes a sovereign state. In determining how a political entity gains sovereignty, the authors introduce the requirements of de facto independence and de jure independence and explore the ambiguities inherent in each. They also examine the political process by which the international community formally confers sovereign status. Fowler and Bunck trace the continuing tension of the &"chunk and basket&" theories of sovereignty through the history of international sovereignty disputes and conclude by considering the usefulness of sovereignty as a concept in the future study and conduct of international affairs. They find that, despite frequent predictions of its imminent demise, the concept of sovereignty is alive and well as the twentieth century draws to a close.

An examination of theoretical and practical aspects of governance, published in 1891 by one of Britain's leading political philosophers.