To answer that question, we need to first define sovereignty in an Aboriginal context.
A final pair of adjectives that define sovereignty is "internal" and "external".
Roughly speaking, we might define sovereignty as the possession of supreme (and possibly unlimited) normative power and authority over some domain, and government as those persons or institutions through whom that sovereignty is exercised.
This case, together with two other involving the Oklahoma Tax Commission have defined tribal sovereignty in a clearer manner.
He combines these in a vision of the sovereignty of God, then goes on to define this sovereignty in political terms, affirming that "God alone is the sovereign" (The Islamic Way of Life).
The result is a "split concept" of sovereignty defined by a dynamic interaction between the legislature and the people, subject to changing times and the reflection of this in the public's attitude to law, to what is admissible and inadmissible (see Ben-Dor 2000, Ch. 2).
With the fall of the Iron Curtain, Ukrainians came out from under the Soviet domination, hoping for a future that would be defined by unity, sovereignty and freedom.
As long as it was only a matter of private corporations, even those as omnipresent as Google, doing the snooping, it fit the demands of freedom defined as consumer sovereignty in that one's freedom of market choices was infinitely refined, and when it was not, the service provider could be exchanged for another.
Chile said its territorial sovereignty was defined by treaties signed in 1904 and 1948, which prevent an international court from interfering in the matter and that it was still governed by these treaties today.
In addition, these officials said, the Palestinians would have been given vaguely defined authority, short of sovereignty, over the Muslim and Christian quarters in the Old City, control of the Dome of the Rock and other Muslim holy places, and a new bridge allowing Palestinians unhindered access to the Muslim holy places from areas under their control to the east of the city.
This newspaper was barred from printing not just the details of an account of claims of damaging activities by the oil-trading company Trafigura but also anything said in parliament about it – a plain breach of parliamentary sovereignty as defined by the Bill of Rights 1689.
