However, the states insisted on retaining their separate links to the Crown, a concept that can be compared to the American system of separate sovereignty for state and federal governments.

Such plenary Federal control of state governmental processes denigrates the separate sovereignty of the states.

State Department spokesmen said it was not entirely clear how the subjects of one nation could be accused of betraying a separate sovereignty to which they owe no allegiance.

ABSTRACT: Comment about the vote in Quebec on whether or not to claim separate sovereignty and thus break up the Canadian federation.

They'd also proposed that all four present a united front, not even revealing to the natives that they were separate sovereignties.

Then we shall have separate sovereignties, and it will be the history of our poor Earth all over again.

It has no separate sovereignty and remains subject to the Australian Constitution and the laws of Australia.

Florida asserted that there is a separate sovereignty between the state government and its municipalities, similar to the sovereignty distinguished between the federal government and the states.

If independence, or separate national sovereignty, were selected, Puerto Rican officials might seek to negotiate a compact of free association with the United States.

Marshall also seemed to think it was for all practical purposes part of the USA, though it had a separate sovereignty.