People have debated about the placement of the Transcontinental Railroad as it undermined the sovereignty of Native nations and threatened to destroy Indigenous communities and their cultures as the railroad expanded into territories inhabited by Native Americans.
What is Sovereignty?
It is the defining authority within an individual consciousness, social construct or territory. Sovereignty entails hierarchy within the state, as well as external autonomy for states.
- Domestic sovereignty – actual control over a state exercised by an authority organized within this state.
- Interdependence sovereignty – actual control of movement across state's borders.
- International legal sovereignty – formal recognition by other sovereign states.
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