Post by Kiwi Frontline on Feb 5, 2024 14:07:51 GMT 12
Bruce Moon: GOODNESS, GRACIOUS ME!?!
And now we have Jack Vowles, Professor of Political Science at Victoria University of Wellington, no less, asking us why “sovereignty” is “so hard to define”! Really? It as, after all, a well-established word in the English language and my Shorter Oxford Dictionary gives shades of meaning for it such as: “supreme dominion, authority or rule”, a usage established in late Middle English. It is well known of course that, a little earlier, King John tried to push this a little too hard and was obliged to sign Magna Carta. Since then, as British practice has developed, the sovereign has ruled though Parliament which has, so to speak “called the shots”. Indeed, when King Charles the First sought to overturn this practice, he lost his head for his efforts. With a brief interregnum, the sovereign has, through parliament, exercised supreme dominion since over recognized British territory…..
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/02/bruce-moon-goodness-gracious-me.html
And now we have Jack Vowles, Professor of Political Science at Victoria University of Wellington, no less, asking us why “sovereignty” is “so hard to define”! Really? It as, after all, a well-established word in the English language and my Shorter Oxford Dictionary gives shades of meaning for it such as: “supreme dominion, authority or rule”, a usage established in late Middle English. It is well known of course that, a little earlier, King John tried to push this a little too hard and was obliged to sign Magna Carta. Since then, as British practice has developed, the sovereign has ruled though Parliament which has, so to speak “called the shots”. Indeed, when King Charles the First sought to overturn this practice, he lost his head for his efforts. With a brief interregnum, the sovereign has, through parliament, exercised supreme dominion since over recognized British territory…..
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/02/bruce-moon-goodness-gracious-me.html