Sovereignty concept

There are many different views on the moral basis of sovereignty, and these different views have also been transformed into various systems:

Supporters of theocracy advocate that the monarch has sacred sovereign power, not through the consent of the people. This theory became an absolute monarchy.

Constructivists believe that sovereignty is a theory put forward to prevent the Pope from interfering in internal affairs when the Peace of Westphalia was signed after the Thirty Years' War.

Jean-jean-jacques rousseau's second book Social Contract and Political Principles (1762) talks about sovereignty and its power. Sovereignty or public opinion cannot be ceded, but if public opinion cannot be conveyed, then sovereignty can be divided, because it must conform to public opinion in essence. If it takes the public interest as the power boundary and takes action through law, then it is absolutely reliable and always correct. Law is the decision of public opinion on public interest affairs, but public opinion is always correct and legal trial is not always wise, so it is not always beneficial to public interest, so it needs the existence of legislators. But legislators themselves have no power. He is only the representative of those who design and propose laws. Only the people themselves (that is, sovereignty or public opinion) have the right to formulate and change them.

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Democracy is based on the concept of people's sovereignty. Different from Rousseau's point of view, representative government allows the exercise of sovereignty to be transferred from the people themselves to parliament or government. Parliamentary sovereignty means that in representative democracy, the supreme sovereignty belongs to parliament, not executive power.

Anarchists and liberals deny the sovereignty of a country or government. Anarchists usually advocate specific personal sovereignty and believe that individuals have their own sovereignty, which is the basis for the formation of consciousness. As Nietzsche proved, a person's consciousness exceeds his own body.

Some people who support democratic globalization believe that countries should cede some power to the world government (a global government with greater power than the United Nations) and be controlled by the people of the world, instead of following the norms between countries.

The main legal basis of sovereignty is the exclusive right to judicial jurisdiction.

More specifically, decisions made by sovereign entities cannot be rejected by higher authorities. In addition, it is generally believed that another legal basis of sovereignty is to exercise its power in reality, not just to have that power in law. In other words, it is not enough to claim sovereignty or exercise sovereign power. Sovereignty should have these two elements.