The constitution is based on the principles of popular sovereignty, representative democracy, and parliamentarism.
The familiar backstops of political discussion – notions such as individual freedom, social equality, national sovereignty, representative democracy or human rights – are not going to help us face the fact that if we carry on as we are, the entire planet may soon become uninhabitable.
He signed most of the rulings that shaped the new political system, such as those related to popular sovereignty, representative and republican principles, separation of powers, publicity of the government actions, freedom of speech and the bases of political federalism.
This thankless task fell to non-ASEAN countries, such as Australia and America.Besides, given the strength of East Timor's claim to sovereignty (its representatives attended this week's ASEAN meetings as guests), it was an unusual case.
That will take, at a minimum, a credible transfer of sovereignty to a representative Iraqi governing body backed by the legitimacy of full United Nations involvement.
The growing chorus of calls for direct elections signaled increasing trouble for plans by the American occupation authorities to turn over sovereignty to Iraqi representatives in June without a popular vote.
In May 2008 Ilulissat, Greenland, was the site of an international summit on Arctic sovereignty attended by official representatives from the five countries that border the Arctic Ocean: Canada, Denmark, Norway, Russia, and the U.S.
The declaration, and subsequent Revolutionary constitutions, channeled the sovereignty of the nation into representative government, thereby negating claims by parlements, provincial estates, or divine-right monarchs as well as any conception of direct democracy.
Over the past two decades, academics, reformist theologians and liberal clerics in Iran have been struggling to redefine traditional Islamic political philosophy in order to bring it in line with modern concepts of representative government, popular sovereignty, universal suffrage and religious pluralism.
"Our elected representatives have ultimate sovereignty not only over our own unelected judges but in my view over the unelected judges of any other jurisdiction, including Europe, unless we choose to give them sovereignty".
"We, and we alone, are the ones who will shape the political force that is born from the European elections, because we are attached to our liberty, attached to our sovereignty and we together, the representatives of the different peoples of Europe, are the ones who will shape the political forces that aim specifically to save Europe," she said at the news conference.
