sovereign
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So is the story of the Constitutional Convention a few years later, which produced what is now the world’s oldest constitution of a complex sovereign state, amended only 27 times.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026
Plus, they were fellow petrostates, their destinies tied to the vast pools of oil beneath their sovereign lands.
From Barron's • May 7, 2026
The first, passed in March, was an unusual measure giving the state the right to automatically appeal any decision holding that it didn’t enjoy sovereign immunity from suit.
From Slate • May 4, 2026
Today the U.S. and the Vatican are, respectively, the greatest hard-power and the greatest soft-power sovereign entities.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026
Blinded with tears, the child sovereign put his beautiful, small hands together.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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