Sunday, October 13, 2013

What is sovereignty?

Sovereignty is a controlling influence, free of external control.

These are the understood sovereign spheres of the USA. There is also local sovereignty. But, there is citizen sovereignty and why 'the home' is a person's alone; for the most part.

There is a relationship between sovereignty and a nation. I think of it as scales. If the scales tip too much in the direction of the authority of the sovereign, the people suffer. If the scales tip too much in the direction of the nation, there is anarchy and the people suffer.

It is not a matter of what type of suffering a nation wants, so much as what level of balance can be achieved. It is a process of seeking importance. What is important to the nation? 

Health care. Immigration. Justice. Prosperity that provides jobs. Those are only some of the issues facing the USA. They are general categories, but, when exposed for their content there are multiple layers of what is important to the nation. Within health care is medical research. Solving the nation's problems when it comes to longevity. Longevity isn't just living long although many Americans genetic content allows that, but, it means being healthy and preventing disease.

What is important is complex. Sovereignty is complex. In order to achieve the balance between types of suffering of the nation there has to be a governing authority with a conscience.

What is governing?