DERIVING Their Just POWERS From The CONSENT Of The People The power of the people rest with

the Sovereign States; Not Corporate STATES. Lets us first remember; corporations are not sovereign, nor can corporate STATES be sovereign. Sovereignty is the absolute, unlimited power of governing, without control by or responsibility to any political superior. A state is said to be sovereign or independent when it has this sovereignty within itself, and dependent when the ultimate governing power exists in some other state or ruler to whom it owes allegiance. Only sovereign states are recognized in international affairs. When those possessing the sovereign power in a state delegate the ordinary functions of government to public officers, such officers thus having power to govern within certain limits, that state is said to have representative government. At some periods of history, sovereignty was regarded as vested in a single ruler by divine right. At other times, it was believed to be lodged in certain classes of persons who were presumed to be best able to govern well. In the principal modern states, however, the sovereign power is, in practice at least, recognized to be in the people as a whole. This doctrine it need hardly be said, is at the foundation of all American institutions. We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal: that they are endowed by there Creator with certain inalienable (un-a-lien-able) rights: that among these are life; liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. SOVEREIGNTY defined: The union and exercise of all human power possessed in a state; it is a combination of all power; it is the power to do everything in a state without accountability; to make laws, to execute and to apply them: to impose and collect taxes, and, levy, contributions; to make war or peace; to form treaties of alliance or of commerce with foreign nations, and the like. Story on the Const. Sec. 207. 2. Abstractedly, sovereignty resides in the body of the nation and belongs to the people. But these powers are generally exercised by delegation. 3. When analyzed, sovereignty is naturally divided into three great powers; namely, the legislative, the executive, and the judiciary; the first is the power to make new laws, and to correct and repeal the old; the second is the power to execute the laws both at home and abroad; and the last is the power to apply the laws to particular facts; to judge the disputes which arise among the citizens, and to punish crimes. 4. Strictly speaking, in our republican forms of government, the absolute sovereignty of the nation is in the people of the nation; (q.v.) and the residuary sovereignty of each state, not granted to any of its public functionaries, is in the people of the state. (q.v.) 2 Dall. 471; and vide, generally, 2 Dall. 433, 455; 3 Dall. 93; 1 Story, Const. Sec. 208; 1 Toull. n. 20 Merl. Repert. h.t.
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SOVEREIGN PEOPLE defined: the political body, consisting of the entire number of citizens and qualified electors, who, in their collective capacity, possess the powers of sovereignty and exercise them through their chosen representatives [see Scott v. Sanford, 19 How. 404, 15 L.Ed. 691.] Black's Law Dictionary Sixth Edition (page 1396) FOREIGN SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY ACT defined: subject to existing international agreements to which the U.S. is a party, and to certain statutorily prescribed exceptions, a foreign nation is immune from the jurisdiction of federal and state courts. [28 U.S.C. Sec. 1601-1611] Black's Law Dictionary Sixth Edition (page 1396) COMMON LAW defined: That which derives its force and authority from the universal consent and immemorial practice of the people. See Law, common. A Law Dictionary Adapted To The Constitution And Laws Of The United States Of
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COMMONWEALTH defined: government. A commonwealth is properly a free state, or republic, having a popular or representative government. The term has been, applied to the government of Great Britain. It is not applicable to absolute governments. The states composing the United States are, properly, so many commonwealths. 2. It is a settled principle, that no sovereign power is amenable to answer suits, either in its own courts or in those of a foreign country, unless by its own consent. 4 Yeates, 494. A Law Dictionary Adapted To The Constitution And Laws Of
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JUST defined: This epithet is applied to that which agrees with a given law, which is the test of right and wrong. 1 Toull. prel. n. 5 Aust. Jur. 276, n. It is that which accords with the perfect rights of others. Wolff, Inst. Sec. 83; Swinb. part 1, s. 2, n. 5, and part 1, Sec. 4, n. 3. By just is also understood full and perfect, as a just weight Swinb. part 1, s. 3, U. 5. A Law Dictionary Adapted To The Constitution
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