In recent years, the nation state's claim to absolute sovereignty within its borders has been much criticized.

"In this country," he wrote, "the people, not the Government, possess the absolute sovereignty."

In such a world, absolute sovereignty becomes impossible and interdependence seems the order of the day.

Spinoza sometimes writes as if the state upheld absolute sovereignty.

Under international law, they had absolute sovereignty over him.

"The people, not the government, possess the absolute sovereignty," Madison explained later.

He has now confirmed his absolute sovereignty in the S3 category.

My dream of absolute sovereignty, however, came at length to an end.

Both stressed the absolute sovereignty of God, as modern fundamentalists would often do.

In the Shultz definition, "the concept of absolute sovereignty is long gone."