>From: David > >Does anyone know of any current or past cases of "graded" sovereignty, >that is, of one country grading or blending gradually into another? > >That is, at this point it is 100% "country A", and over there 90% "country >A", 10% "country B". And then 70% "A", 30% "B", then 50-50, then 20% "A", >80% "B", and finally 100% "B"? Sort of a condominium zone in which one
>country gradually gives way to the other?
well isnt this basically what happens in maritime boundary law as land territory phases into territorial seas & then into eezs & then into additional continental shelf claims & finally into pure high seas
in the course of all which gradual subtractions of national sovereignty are accompanied by corresponding accumulations of everyonese sovereignty
& to think you just said last week that you were not very interested in such maritime distinctions
but hang on for more wiseacrings from me below
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>If not at the national level, any examples at the subnational level?
i think we saw very vividly during the drama of election 2000 how the sovereignties not only of the state of florida but even of its individual counties & their individual officials & voters often checked or even outweighed the sovereignties of supposedly more sovereign entities than themselves
but really what i think you may be grasping at here david is how the whole notion of national sovereignty is crumbling before our very eyes as we move into the postmonarchical world
& how its undoing gains momentum as more & more of us ordinary people realize our personal divinity
& how within this evolution is born the idea nay the inevitability of everyones land
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