The cause of this discussion is to have arudimentary or passable understanding of how different countries resolve issues to do with sovereignty,executive and judicial power. The space of an article might prove too lean for such a monumentalundertaking so few countries, the United States of America (USA), the Republic of South Africa (RSA),Russia and Kenya at a distance, are observed. This first of three parts will focus solely on sovereignty.Zambia will be used for reference. The easiest way to think of sovereignty is that it is the right to self-determination exercised by nation states without the permission of another country. It is what giveseach state the freedom to exercise their electoral mandate through the institutions of governance,commonly the executive, legislature and judiciary. Sovereignty is at once a confluence of nationalidentity, authority, consensus and the Constitution. One thing the 2016 Zambian Constitution madeobvious, more than other Constitutions, is that it plainly pointed to the people, the […]
A BRIEF COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SOVEREIGNTY (PART 1)
