Sovereignty, in political theory, the ultimate overseer, or authority, in the decision-making process of the state and in the maintenance of order. Derived from the Latin superanus through the French souveraineté, the term was originally understood to mean the equivalent of supreme power.

the quality or state of being sovereign, or of having supreme power or authority. the status, dominion, power, or authority of a sovereign;royal rank or position; royalty. supreme and independent power or authority in government as possessed or claimed by a state or community.

It often describes a person who has supreme power or authority, such as a king or queen. Nations and states are also sometimes described as “sovereign.” This means that they have power over themselves; their government is under their own control, rather than under the control of an outside authority.

Sovereignty is one of the oldest political concepts in the world. It is the concept that a state has full, independent authority over a geographic area, to put extremely simple. The implementation of policies, in areas such as the environment, can be affected by issues of sovereignty.

There are two aspects of sovereignty: internal sovereignty and external sovereignty. Internal Sovereignty means some persons, assembly of group of persons in every independent state have the final legal authority to command and enforce obedience.

There are three types of sovereign governments in the United States: the federal government, state govern- ments, and tribal governments. A federal government derives its sovereign power from the people—its voting citizens. A state government derives its sovereign power from the federal government.

In other words, Sovereignty is the ultimate power, authority and/or jurisdiction over a people and a territory. No other person, group, tribe or state can tell a sovereign entity what to do with its land and/or people.

The five different kinds of sovereignty are as follows: (1) Nominal arid Real Sovereignty (2) Legal Sovereignty (3) Political Sovereignty (4) Popular Sovereignty (5) Deo Facto and De Jure Sovereignty.

Legal sovereignty is the conception of sovereignty in terms of law, and it refers to that person or body of persons who, by law, have the power to issue final commands. Law is simply the will of the sovereign.

Factors of effective sovereignty

• Equality. All nation states that are members of the UN are considered equal in terms of their sovereignty.
• Independence. All sovereign nation states are independent from interventions from other states, including the use of threats or outright force.
• Territoriality.

The main way nations lose their sovereignty is by being conquered. They can also lose some of it by merger, such as when Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged to become Tanzania.

According to the declarative theory of statehood, a sovereign state can exist without being recognised by other sovereign states. Unrecognised states will often find it difficult to exercise full treaty-making powers or engage in diplomatic relations with other sovereign states.

In my view, states are losing their sovereignty when we see from the angles of global production networks and actors involvement in global economy. In this contemporary era of intensive globalization, states are not the sole actors. Hence, there power shift to non state actors.

States may generally legislate on all matters within their territorial jurisdiction. This “police power” does not arise from the Constitution, but is an inherent attribute of the states’ territorial sovereignty.

Sovereignty is a political concept that refers to dominant power or supreme authority. In a monarchy, supreme power resides in the “sovereign”, or king. In modern democracies, sovereign power rests with the people and is exercised through representative bodies such as Congress or Parliament.

A State is a political unit that has sovereignty over an area of territory and the people within it. Sovereignty is the legitimate and ultimate authority over a polity (i.e., a political unit).

State sovereignty is reflected in the concept of jurisdiction with which a State exercises its power and authority. The State’s jurisdiction is primarily territorial in nature, but it can to a certain extent be exercised outside the State’s borders based on criteria such as nationality.

Sovereignty is an attribute of states that is both an idea and a reality of state power. It is one of the means, an important one, by which the government of a state seeks to ensure the best it possibly can for its people. As such, it also changes over time.

Sovereignty is the power of a state to do everything necessary to govern itself, such as making, executing, and applying laws; imposing and collecting taxes; making war and peace; and forming treaties or engaging in commerce with foreign nations. …

The State plays a range of roles in terms of political organisation (elections), legal organisation (the development and application of laws), relations with other countries and so forth. The State co-ordinates the relationship between different economic organisations (such as employers and Trade Unions).