Our sovereignty has been taken away by the European Court of Justice...Our courts must no longer enforce our national laws. They must enforce Community law...No longer is European law an incoming tide flowing up the estuaries of England. It is now like a tidal wave bringing down our sea walls and flowing inland over our fields and houses.
Senior civil judge in the Court of Appeal of England and Wales
The sovereignty of America has just been eroded in plain daylight by Clinton and the Congress, who take an oath to the Constitution. Those criminals continue to destroy this country and the world itself.
Western capitalism is a looting mechanism. It loots labor. It loots the environment, and with the transpacific and transatlantic 'partnerships,' it will loot the sovereign law of countries.
[The loss-of-strength gradient is] the degree to which military and political power diminishes as we move a unit distance away from its home base.
There is no question of any erosion of essential national sovereignty.
In this new market ...billions can flow in or out of an economy in seconds. So powerful has this force of money become that some observers now see the hot-money set becoming a sort of shadow world government -- one that is irretrievably eroding the concept of the sovereign powers of a nation state.