CHARACTERISTICS OF SOVEREIGNTY
June 09, 2014
Ø Sovereignty is permanent, exclusive, comprehensive, inalienable,
absolute and unified
Ø Permanence -
So long as the state itself exists, sovereignty continues without interruption.
Ø Exclusive - There
can be but one supreme power in the state. Within the state, there is no other
power that possesses equal or superior authority to it
Ø Comprehensiveness
- Sovereign power extends over all persons, associations, and things within
such territorial limits except those over which the state has voluntarily
consented to waive the exercise of its jurisdiction.
Ø Inalienability
- An attribute of the state by virtue of which it cedes away any of its
essential elements without self-destruction.
Ø Absolutism -
Sovereignty is a primary power. It does not derive its power from anything,
There is no other body that determines the nature and the extent of the power
as a matter of legal right.
Ø Unity -
Sovereignty cannot be divided without producing several wills of the people,
which is inconsistent with the notiion of sovereignty.