Eyadema had ordered the suspension of the conference on Aug. 26 because of its efforts to exercise "unlimited sovereignty".
According to the treaty, the confederation was to be run by common constitutional bodies, but the individual states (in particular the larger ones) wanted unlimited sovereignty.
The Lord President did give his opinion that "the principle of unlimited sovereignty of Parliament is a distinctively English principle and has no counterpart in Scottish constitutional law".
Excepted was the island of Heligoland, where the British king was granted "full and unlimited sovereignty".
They claimed absolute authority over the colonists, who rejected the notion that any earthly authority could acquire unlimited sovereignty.
Mr. Qi forcefully rejected that idea on grounds of unlimited national sovereignty.
Under that doctrine, the king, and by extension his entire government, held unlimited sovereignty over its subjects.
Stevens noted that over its own members, a tribe has virtually unlimited sovereignty.
No sleight of hand can reconcile the unlimited sovereignty of the individual country with security against attack.
QUOTE "The principle of the unlimited sovereignty of Parliament is a distinctively English principle which has no counterpart in Scottish constitutional law.
