sovereignty has definitions from the fields of politics,government
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[ noun ] (politics,government) government free from external control

Used in print

(Morton A. Kaplan and Nicholas de B. Katzenbach,...)

On_the_one_hand , the major European_nations had to maintain vis-a-vis each other an emphasis upon sovereignty , independence , formal equality - thus insuring for themselves individually an optimal freedom of action to maintain the `` flexibility of alignment '' that the system required and to avoid anything approaching a repetition of the disastrous Napoleonic experience .

Related terms

self-government

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[ noun ] (government) royal authority; the dominion of a monarch

Synonyms

reign

Related terms

dominion scepter reign

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