imperium in imperio

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The Church, in the Latitudinarian view was thus either the creature of the state or an imperium in imperio; but Leslie would not admit that fruitful stumbling block to the debate.

From Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham by Laski, Harold Joseph

It stood upon the grounds of the Naval Training Station, for apprentices, which considered itself defrauded of property and intruded upon by an alien jurisdiction—an imperium in imperio.

From From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)

And who told "the rough allies," the Janisaries of this imperium in imperio, that they must assist and countenance both Dick and the priest?

From A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself. by Waterhouse, Benjamin

It would remain, but would remain subject to a Parliament which would not allow an imperium in imperio.

From The Life of Froude by Paul, Herbert W. (Herbert Woodfield)

Each Province, as in every genuine Federation, is an imperium in imperio, possessing a Constitution of its own, and delegating central powers to a Federal Government.

From The Framework of Home Rule by Childers, Erskine