Editing Sovereignty (section)

===Shared and pooled===
Just as the office of [[head of state]] can be vested jointly in several persons within a state, the sovereign jurisdiction over a single political territory can be shared jointly by two or more consenting powers, notably in the form of a [[condominium (international law)|condominium]].<ref>Joel H. Samuels, ''Condominium Arrangements in International Practice: Reviving an Abandoned Concept of Boundary Dispute Resolution'', 29 Mich. J. Int'l L. 727 (2008).

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Likewise the member states of international organizations may voluntarily bind themselves by treaty to a supranational organization, such as a [[continental union]]. In the case of the European Union member-states, this is called [[Member state of the European Union#Sovereignty|"pooled sovereignty"]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=The European Union: Pooled Sovereignty, Divided Accountability | doi=10.1111/1467-9248.00096 | volume=45|issue = 3|journal=Political Studies|pages=559–578|first1=John|last1=Peterson|year = 1997| s2cid=144362061 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=McNaughton|first1=Neil|title=Understanding British and European political issues : a guide for A2 politics studies|date=2003|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=978-0719062452|page=207|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tMrD6RRoZkQC&pg=RA1-PT152}}</ref>

Another example of shared and pooled sovereignty is the [[Acts of Union 1707]] which created the [[unitary state]] now known as the [[United Kingdom]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Mannin|first1=Michael L.|title=British government and politics balancing Europeanization and independence|date=2010|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|isbn=9780742567771|page=134|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ucS-AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA134}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Rawlings|first1=Richard|last2=Leyland|first2=Peter|last3=Young|first3=Alison L|title=Sovereignty and the law : domestic, European, and international perspectives|date=2013|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0199684069|page=28|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dyUiAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA28}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Jesse|first1=Neal G.|last2=Williams|first2=Kristen P.|title=Identity and institutions: conflict reduction in divided societies|date=2005|publisher=State Univ. of New York Press|isbn=978-0791464519|page=[https://archive.org/details/identityinstitut0000jess/page/120 120]|url=https://archive.org/details/identityinstitut0000jess|url-access=registration}}</ref> It was a full economic union, meaning the Scottish and English systems of currency, taxation and laws regulating trade were aligned.<ref name="Mitchison2002p314">R. Mitchison, ''A History of Scotland'' (London: Routledge, 3rd edn., 2002), {{ISBN|0415278805}}, p. 314.</ref> Nonetheless, Scotland and England never fully surrendered or pooled all of their governance sovereignty; they retained many of their previous national institutional features and characteristics, particularly relating to their legal, religious and educational systems.<ref>{{cite book|last1=McCann|first1=Philip|title=The UK Regional–National Economic Problem: Geography, globalisation and governance|date=2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781317237174|page=372|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uAi4CwAAQBAJ&pg=PT372}}</ref> In 2012, the [[Scottish Government]], created in 1998 through [[devolution in the United Kingdom]], [[2014 Scottish independence referendum#Legality of a referendum|negotiated terms]] with the [[Government of the United Kingdom]] for the [[2014 Scottish independence referendum]] which resulted in the people of Scotland deciding to continue the pooling of its sovereignty with the rest of the United Kingdom.