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Websters Dictionary:
[Essential Meaning of sovereignty]
1: unlimited power over a country
2: a country's independent authority and the right to govern itself
[Full Definition of sovereignty]
1a: supreme power especially over a body politic
b: freedom from external control : AUTONOMY
c: controlling influence
Blacks Law Dictionary 4th:
The supreme, absolute and uncontrollable power by which any independent state is governed; supreme political authority; paramount control of the constitution and frame of government and it’s administration; the self sufficient source of political power, from which all specific political powers are derived; the international independence of a state, combined with the right and power of regulating it’s internal affairs, without foreign dictation; also, a political society or state, which is sovereign and independent.
The power to do everything in a state without accountability, - to make laws, to execute and to apply them, to impose and collect taxes and levy contributions, to make war or peace, to form treaties of alliance or of commerce with foreign nations and the like.
By sovereignty in its largest sense is meant supreme, absolute, uncontrollable power, the absolute right to govern.
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