sovereignty

In today’s interconnected economies and societies, a formal independence is the opposite of gaining real sovereignty and control. This is because the excluded party would be absent from the table when decisions are made, unable to participate as choices are taken that, sooner or later, will affect them.

But Fortune, oh, / She is corrupted, chang’d, and wonne from thee, / Sh’adulterates hourely with thine Vnckle Iohn, / And with her golden hand hath pluckt on France / To tread downe faire reſpect of Soueraigntie, / And made his Maieſtie the bawd to theirs.

[His head,] Wherein by curious ſoueraigntie of Art,

Are fixt his piercing inſtruments of ſight:

Whose fiery circles beare encompaſſed

A heauen of heauenly bodies in their Spheares: