| It is thus by accepting these common sovereignties that we will acquire a new power and a wider impact. |
| According to federalist doctrine, the states are separate sovereignties, not subordinate but equal to the national government. |
| The treaties of Westphalia formally recognized the existence of separate sovereignties in one international society. |
| That would lead us, in the most general terms, to be very sympathetic to the protection of cultural sovereignties. |
| This is an attack on the respect of national sovereignties but also on the moral sovereignty of Member States and their citizens. |
| It took from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century for Europeans to achieve peaceful sovereignties with peaceful transitions of power. |
