postsovereign
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
1
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to a political or legal system or mindset in which sovereign state power is no longer the highest or primary power.
Example Sentences
- "The European Union in its present form remains predominantly, despite some supranational features, an intergovernmental organization. In other words, there remains a substantial difference between the project of European political integration and the current product of integration. The postsovereign polity—especially that form of it envisaged by proponents of agonistic democracy—would represent a radical step beyond the intergovemmentalism present in the con-temporary EU. Such a step requires a strong justification. This chapter examines the justifications that can and have been put forward in support of a postsovereign polity in Europe."