These are not powers that could be used lightly - nor should they be - but we would gain the sovereign right to freeze open borders.

You regard making your own decisions as a sovereign right.

In its text, the state formally renounces the sovereign right of belligerency and aims at an international peace based on justice and order.

The signatories, who were sovereign states, big and small, accepted in that agreement the principle of the sovereign right of each state to the air space over its territory.

This school of thought holds that sovereign rights and immunities are not absolute.