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suzerain (n.)

suzerain (n.)

“sovereign, ruler,” 1807, from French suzerain (14c., Old French suserain), noun use of adjective meaning “sovereign but not supreme,” from adverb sus “up, above,” on analogy of soverain (see sovereign (adj.)). Old French sus is from Vulgar Latin *susum, from Latin sursum “upward, above,” contraction of subversum, from subvertere (see subvert).

Suzerainty

Suzerainty (/ˈsuːzərənti, -rɛnti/) is a relationship in which one state or other polity controls the foreign policy and relations of a tributary state, while allowing the tributary state to have internal autonomy.[1] The dominant state is called the “suzerain”.

Suzerainty differs from sovereignty in that the tributary state is technically independent, but enjoys only limited self-rule. Although the situation has existed in a number of historical empires, it is considered difficult to reconcile with 20th- or 21st-century concepts of international law, in which sovereignty is a binary which either exists or does not. While a sovereign state can agree by treaty to become a protectorate of a stronger power, modern international law does not recognise any way of making this relationship compulsory on the weaker power. Suzerainty is a practical, de facto situation, rather than a legal, de jure one.

United States Statutes at Large


The United States Statutes at Large, typically referred to as the Statutes at Large, is the permanent collection of all laws and resolutions enacted during each session of Congress. 

https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/STATUTE

Include:
Declaration of Independence
Constitution for the United States of America 1878
Articles of Confederation
Northwest Territory (https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=8)
The Northwest Ordinance, adopted July 13, 1787, by the Confederation Congress,

*All added Statutorily (as opposed to Common Law, Imperial Law or Natures Law)