Sovereign

Sovereign comes probably of Latin super anus or suprema potestas, and ' highest power ' or ' highest authority ' means. In former days was the soeverein for example or .

In the Netherlands the districts in 1588 themselves sovereignty accepted. This meant that they as of now the volheid of powers in the state and they to nobody be subject. After the French time this term returns at king Willem I. He accepted wise constitutie in 1813, sovereignty under condition ener.

Sovereignty is also used to indicate where eventually the authority comes from (e.g. volkssoevereiniteit or god sovereignty). It is in other words the legitimation source of the authority himself. In modern states already the right generally carry back to the constitutie is. By means of the sovereignty term it is indicated why the constitutie applies. In the case of volkssoevereiniteit is that for example this way because the people is considered itself which constitutie to have given. In case of frost sovereignty the frost is considered the constitutie to have given.

Sovereignty the right of a political entity is its exercise power. In are sovereignty an important concept, there it concerns the respect for each other's borders and the right exercise authority within the limits of national state (it zelfbeschikkingsrecht). This means that another state does not have to the right with the internal matters and interfere himself that she refrains from aggression against the sovereign state.

The term sovereignty in the sixteenth century as politically theoretical concept it was introduced Jean Bodin (1530 - 1596).

If a sovereign state exercises authority concerning (partly) an independent area, this state is suzerein of this area. The area becomes then protectorate called.