To him, law is the command of the sovereign ( the English monarch ) who personifies the power of the nation, while sovereignty is the power to make law -- i.e., to prevail over internal groups and to be free from the commands of other sovereigns in other nations.

It is much less difficult now than in Lincoln's day to see that on both sides sovereign Americans had given their lives in the Civil War to maintain the balance between the powers they had delegated to the States and to their Union.

His Ethics defines `` possessions as the property of the community, of which the individual is sovereign steward.

Our problem, therefore, is to devise processes more modest in their aspirations, adjusted to the real world of sovereign nation states and diverse and hostile communities.

that is, from aspects of a universal system of Justice into particular rules governing the relations of sovereign states.

It is of course useful to have a sovereign cause on one's social criticism, for it makes diagnosis and prescription much easier than they might otherwise be.

He said " A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people.

An allegiance is a duty of fidelity said to be owed by a subject or a citizen to his / her state or sovereign.

The oath of allegiance is an oath of fidelity to the sovereign taken by all persons holding important public office and as a condition of naturalization.

As such, open theists resolve the issue of human free will and God's sovereignty by claiming that God is sovereign because he does not ordain each human choice, but rather works in cooperation with his creation to bring about his will.

Andrew's report to his sovereign, whom he rejoined in 1251 at Caesarea in the Palestine, appears to have been a mixture of history and fable ; the latter affects his narrative of the Mongols ' rise to greatness, and the struggles of their leader Genghis Khan with Prester John ; it is still more evident in the position assigned to the Mongols ' homeland, close to the prison of Gog and Magog.

First: it " mandates that whoever is the sovereign of the United Kingdom is also, by virtue of this external fact, sovereign of Australia "; accordingly, changes to British succession laws would have no effect on Australian law, but if the British amendment changed the sovereign, then the new sovereign of the United Kingdom would automatically become the new sovereign of Australia.

# As Primate of All England, he is the senior primate and chief religious figure of the Church of England ( the British sovereign is the Supreme governor of the church ).

In contrast to the European Union, which is a community ( confederation ) of 27 sovereign countries without state-character the moment ( Staatenbund ).

Modern bullion coins for investment or collector purposes do not require good mechanical wear properties ; they are typically fine gold at 24k, although the American Gold Eagle and the British gold sovereign continue to be minted in 22k metal in historical tradition.

From then on, he ordered prayers in all the mosques of Syria and Egypt as the sovereign king and he issued at the Cairo mint gold coins bearing his official title — al-Malik an-Nasir Yusuf Ayyub, ala ghaya " the King Strong to Aid, Joseph son of Job ; exalted be the standard.

Other mementos of Holmes's cases are a gold sovereign from Irene Adler (" A Scandal in Bohemia ") and an autographed letter of thanks from the French President and a Legion of Honour for tracking down an assassin named Huret (" The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez ").

However, only in 1821, following the introduction of the gold sovereign coin by the new Royal Mint at Tower Hill in the year 1816, was the United Kingdom formally put on a gold specie standard, the first of the great industrial powers to do so.

: Pantalone: A gold sovereign.

* A gold coin equal to one pound sterling, called a sovereign, is issued for Henry VII of England.

Twelve years of campaigning on the Galician frontier were concluded in 1143 by the Treaty of Zamora, in which Afonso was recognized as independent of any other Iberian sovereign, although he promised to be a faithful vassal of the Pope and to pay him a yearly tribute of four ounces of gold.

Until 1993, all these years use the Pistrucci reverse except for 1986 which used a gold version of the circulating Two Pound coin, and 1989 when a completely new design was used to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the first issue of the sovereign coin-the obverse shows the Queen seated on the coronation throne holding the orb and sceptre, with the legend, while the reverse shows a crowned shield within a double rose and the legend.

Named after the English gold sovereign, last minted in 1604, the name was revived with the Great Recoinage of 1816.

In 2009, The Royal Mint released a new coin in the sovereign series: the quarter-sovereign, similar in some ways to the original gold English crown of the rose.

The initial reverse type for gold coins was the shield and crown motif, supplemented on the sovereign with a heraldic wreath.

It is estimated that in circulation a sovereign could have a lifespan of up to 15 years before it fell below the " least current weight ", that is, the minimum amount of gold below which it ceased to be legal tender.

To modern eyes the gold sovereign appears quite a small coin, but with a face value of £ 1 it had, in 1895, the same purchasing power as £ 150 in 2007.

Occasionally one comes across fake sovereign coins where the gold is replaced or alloyed with a substitute metal to look like gold.

The first phase was opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 17 December 1968, and production gradually shifted to the new site over the next seven years until the last coin, a gold sovereign, was struck in London in November 1975.

The half sovereign is an English and British gold coin with a face value half that of a sovereign: equivalent to half a pound sterling, ten shillings, or 120 old pence.

The United Kingdom was now operating a very successful gold standard in relation to the gold sovereign that was introduced in 1816, and there was a desire to extend this system to the colonies.

The reality of the rating between the dollar and the pound was based on the silver content of the Spanish pieces of eight as compared to the gold content of the British gold sovereign.

* Seigniorage derived from specie — metal coins, is a tax, added to the total price of a coin ( metal content and production costs ), that a customer of the mint had to pay to the mint, and that was sent to the sovereign of the political area.

In 1989 a completely new design was used to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the first issue of the sovereign coin – the obverse shows the Queen seated on the coronation throne holding the orb and sceptre, with the legend, while the reverse shows a crowned shield within a double rose and the legend.

The coin is really a two-ryal coin worth thirty shillings and is a development of the earlier fine sovereign of Queen Elizabeth I.

The clubs ' presidents toss a coin ( the 1829 sovereign ) before the race for the right to choose which side of the river ( station ) they will row on: their decision is based on the day's weather conditions and how the various bends in the course might favour their crew's pace.

Gold is also a highly dense metal, so a small coin like a sovereign can contain nearly a quarter of an ounce of metal.

A fake made from lead to exactly the same thickness and diameter as a genuine sovereign would be 35 % lighter than the genuine coin.

The sovereign is a " protected coin " for the purposes of Part II of the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981.

# REDIRECT Half sovereign ( British coin )

It was this currency which was initially adopted as an Arab word ; then near the end of the 7th century the coin became an Islamic currency bearing the name of the sovereign and a religious verse.

The gold coin in use before the sovereign of 20 shillings was the guinea of 21 shillings.

Many of the sovereigns minted in Australia were for use in India as part of a plan that the gold sovereign should become the imperial coin.

Following the Napoleonic wars, the United Kingdom introduced the gold sovereign coin and formally adopted a gold standard in 1821.