Sovereignty: The Battle for the Hearts and Minds of Men

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Stuart Professor of International Relations and a Senior Fellow in the Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. But if the referendum is the sacred moment of the exercise of sovereignty, why were the sovereign people not told in 2016 that, as Tombs insists, the only form of Brexit they were going to get was one of the most extreme imaginable?

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This is EXACTLY what Dedicated to Discipline is all about, which is why this quote really hit home for me. He also disputes the right of the supreme court to find illegal Boris Johnson’s attempt to prorogue that parliament in 2019. Secondly, their functions differ; whereas internal sovereignty pertains to all political and legal matters, external sovereignty usually only relates to questions of coexistence and/or cooperation among distinct sovereign entities.I could tell that he had a military background with his no BS way of writing and getting points across. According to the Court in its 1923 Wimbledon decision, far from being an abandonment of sovereignty, ‘the right of entering into international engagements is an attribute of State sovereignty’ (at 25). Political sovereignty becomes a mere reflection of popular sovereignty; if the sovereign does not respect popular will, it risks losing its attributions. Differences in national power and interests, he concludes, not international norms, continue to be the most powerful explanation for the behavior of states. So, sovereignty can lie only with the people and can be expressed only by their vote in a referendum.

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International law now contributes with domestic law to the shaping of internal sovereignty and internal competences as the law of a given people in a multi-level polity. These two definitions refer to very different facets of sovereignty which correspond to its normative and empirical dimensions. In the first instance, Tombs is too true to his profession to peddle the Brexiter myth that continued membership of the EU was incompatible with the historic identity of “our island nation”. There is, moreover, an underlying tension in the idea of “the people” in an explicitly multinational state like the UK. If States were to remain ultimate authorities on the inside, they needed to be independent on the outside.I think it was because a lot of the discipline-based folks are interconnected through this social web of sharing their thoughts for the benefit of others. More recently, some authors have tried to dissociate legal and political sovereignty and re-associate legal to institutional sovereignty. The problem then is to know when sovereignty is so limited or fragmented that there can no longer be any talk of sovereignty.