You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services. Votes: 2
Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit. Votes: 2
It is quite understandable that Puerto Ricans seek to preserve a cultural sense of identity without separating politically from U.S. national sovereignty. Votes: 2
The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations. Votes: 2
We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible. Votes: 2
National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government. Votes: 2
Any people has a right to self-determination, and now in Europe the process of diluting national sovereignty in the framework of a united Europe is more accepted. Votes: 2
If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as well as voting power in Congress. Votes: 2
Courts have long recognized the federal government's robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country. After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation's ability to protect its borders. Votes: 2
In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty. Votes: 2
There is no question of any erosion of essential national sovereignty. Votes: 0
You don't defend national sovereignty with flags, cheap election rhetoric, and advertising campaigns. Votes: 0
The development of the Internet has posed new challenges to national sovereignty, security and development interests. Votes: 0
China's limited military power is for the sake of preserving national sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity, Votes: 0
Science has made unrestricted national sovereignty incompatible with human survival. The only possibilities are now world government or death. Votes: 0
The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries. Votes: 0
In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all. Votes: 0
Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while the sap of life goes flowing in another direction. Votes: 0
So that the executive and legislative branches of the national government depend upon, and emanate from the states. Every where the state sovereignties are represented; and the national sovereignty, as such, has no representation. Votes: 0
When globalisation means that many of the services that individual governments used to have direct power over are privatised, in education and health, even prison services, nonetheless national sovereignty still needs to be exercised. Votes: 0
There is no real peace in Europe, if the states are reconstituted on a basis of national sovereignty. ("¦) They must have larger markets. Their prosperity is impossible, unless the States of Europe form themselves in a European Federation.
Europe is my home, Europe is my continent. Europe is where we live. The European Union is a political bureaucratic organization that took away our identity and our national sovereignty. So, I would get rid of the European Union and be a nation-state again.
Paul Martin talks eloquently about defending national sovereignty but the reality hasn't matched the rhetoric. When it comes to the United States, Mr. Martin says he calls them as he sees them, but when it comes to American passage through Canada, he doesn't actually see anything.
The single most important duty of the federal government is to protect and defend our national sovereignty. There are new and disturbing reports of American nuclear submarines passing though Canadian waters without obtaining the permission of, or even notifying, the Canadian government.
The ultimate goal is not simply a superhighway, but an integrated North American Union--complete with a currency, a cross-national bureaucracy, and virtually borderless travel within the Union. Like the European Union, a North American Union would represent another step toward the abolition of national sovereignty altogether.
...Skyscraper National Park Votes: 3 Kurt Vonnegut
The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India. Votes: 6 B. R. Ambedkar