Unlike states, sovereignty over insular areas rests not with the local people, but in Congress.

They had an idea that sovereignty rested with a free people, even if some among those people didn't believe in God, or in the same God, or in the same way.

John Foster Dulles, then the U.S. Secretary of State coined a new phrase in world diplomacy when he said "residual sovereignty" over Okinawa rested with Japan.

In this sense sovereignty still rests with the British Parliament.

It states that the sovereignty of Japan rests with the people, not the emperor, and that the emperor is merely the symbol of the State and of the unity of the people.

The sovereignty rests with the Turkish Nation, who delegates its exercise to an elected unicameral parliament, the Turkish Grand National Assembly.

The report is marked by an approach based on interventionism and meddling on a broad range of issues over which sovereignty should rest with the Syrian people.

He is one of those who argues that sovereignty in a democracy rests in its parliament.

He offended the pope by his arrogance and pride, and both pope and emperor by his proposal to set up a new Roman Empire, the sovereignty of which would rest directly upon the will of the people.

A classical republic, according to certain modern political theorists, is a state of Classical Antiquity that is considered to have a republican form of government, a state where sovereignty rested with the people rather than a ruler or monarch.