Folk sovereignty never leaves the people; it is ever resident with the people. Sovereignty comes with tremendous authority but it is not the same thing as authority. Authority is an aspect of the manifestation of sovereignty, the superior overlord. Sovereignty is never delegated. In fact in a republic, the primary difference between sovereignty and authority is that one can be delegated while the other is absolute.
I make this distinction because incompetent Shitnator Abiriba claims that people delegated sovereignty to the Legislature. Abriba either do not understand sovereignty or he is a dictator. How could people part with the sovereignty if they still have the power to sack any government any time any day. Sovereignty is like a crown, kings do not give up their crowns to their proxies, rather they impact them with authority. It is common sense, if the King gives his crown to one proxy how could he delegate the next proxy? As you know, the King can delegate and impact authority to as much proxies as he needs. The King is able to delegate and impact authorities to many of his subject because the crown is still with him. Once the crown leaves him the power to delegate or impact authority would be lost. Likewise sovereignty never leaves the people. Mr Abiriba do your home work or take your incompetence and go back to your village.
Noon, below are excerpts, nonetheless your complete post dissected into the questions you posed and remarks you made. Where your questions and remarks made sense I did my best to respond.
q;“So how can a teenager below the age of 18yrs exercise His or Her soveriegnty in this case as you said a citizen can not loose its soveriegnty?”
a;Sovereignty is not an individual thing. It is the collective supremacy of the people over the government. Your questions suggest that you neither understand sovereignty nor know your citizenship rights.
q;“Teacher, How can a citizen exersice His or Her democratic soveriegnty?”
a;What do you mean by ‘citizen exercise democratic sovereignty??’ not sure I understand your question. However, democracy; government of the people by the people: Sovereignty is not something that a citizen exercises but rather it is the intrinsically supremacy of the citizenry over the government. The people with their sovereign power decide what form of government they want; may decide to terminate one form of government for another. I am not your teacher; remember you were the first to criticize my post. All I did was to respond to your criticism that made little to no sense. You’re so obstinate and perhaps ignorant that you want to know by pretending like you know.
q;“Can a citizen abused soveriegnty?”
a;Again, this question not only suggests that you know not sovereignty but that you also do not even know how to ask an intelligent question. But, if I may try, citizenry could not abuse sovereignty because it is citizenry’s absolute power over the government. It is citizenry’s power to dissolve, sack the government, (the legislature, Judiciary, the executive) any time any day with or without reason.
q;“Or is your acclaimed soveriegnty of people prevailed over rules of law or it is unlimited power that is not questionable?”
a;Yes, the rule of law is nothing to supremacy of the people in a republic. The citizenry decides how, where, when the rule of law applies because remember the people have the power to abolish the government, the law and set up new ones whenever they so chooses. Sovereignty is absolute.
q;“Teacher, this controvercial issue of SOVERIEGNTY confirmed that upon our so called education we are not civilised, every National issue resulted to controversy clearly this type of kindergaten controversy was not a characteristic of a civilised society and above all we are not learning from other country to be able to correct ourselves.”
a;You did not make sense here and you seem to pull things from all over, incoherent and completely out of point. I have suggestion, if you do not know how to be bold and humbly enough to ask, then remember pride comes before fall. Do not engage in topics you do not know because it only lowers your personality and character. Do not think because you’re hiding behind the computer screen that the public do not know and see you. No, we know and see you through the things you post here. Yes, because a person is about 98% of what he thinks and says. I do not need to know your name to know you. You can know person without knowing his or her name. So I know you and you need knowledge and humility.
q;“Americans demonstrated their democratic soveriegnty by using their vote wisely in home and diaspora as practical way of exercise democratic soveriegnty while here in Nigeria political noise-making, controversy and promoting talkactive society is where soveriegnty lies even if Nigerians in diaspora could not able to exercise their democratic soveriegnty by vote.”
a;Rambling and out of point.
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