sovereign
Variants: also sovran
1: possessed of supreme power
Example: a {h,2}sovereign ruler
2: enjoying autonomy
Example: {h,2}sovereign states
3: relating to, characteristic of, or befitting a sovereign
sovereignty
Variants:also sovranty ['sä-vren-te, 'se-, -ve-ren-]
pl: -ties
1 a: supreme power esp. over a body politic
b: freedom from external control: "autonomy"
2: one that is sovereign
esp
: an autonomous state
dual sovereignty doctrine
: a doctrine holding that more than one sovereign (as a state government and the federal government) may prosecute an individual without violating the prohibition against double jeopardy if the individual's act breaks the laws of each sovereignty
Just so you can't hold forth that I'm pulling all these words out of my......wig.