Sovereign Power
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910)
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
In the House of Commons, in considering the Petition of Right, when the Lords had proposed to “leave entire” the King’s sovereign power, Pyin refused to speak to the question, saying that he knew not what it was. He knew how to add sovereignty to the King’s person, but not to his power. Coke said: “I know that prerogative is part of the law; but ‘sovereign power* is no parliamentary word; should we now add it we would weaken the foundations of law and then the building must needs fall.” See Taswell-Langmead, Eng. Const. Hist. 428.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
That power in a state to which none other is superior or equal, and which includes ali the specific powers which are necessary to accomplish the legitimate ends and purposes of government See Boggs v. Merced Min. Co., 14 Cal. 309: Donnelly v. Decker, 58 Wis, 461, 17 N. W. 389, 46 Am. Rep. 637; Com. v. Alger, 7 Cush. (Mass.) 81.
Defined under Sovereign in Black's Law Dictionary.