How has British Sovereignty been compromised by membership of the European Union? The word sovereignty itself means the legitimate location of power of last resort over any community. It may be defined purely in legal terms as the power to make binding laws which no other body can break. It may be viewed as the autonomous power of a community to govern itself, a territorial concept relating to the powers of independent nation states. A.…showed first 75 words of 1109 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1109 total…it would have been left behind the other major powers in Europe as it had to join the common market in order to stay in touch economically. Britain may also have a dictatorship style government without the constraints of the EU, and EU law has protected some civil liberties against British law such retirement ages and employment rights. British sovereignty has been compromised but a better more rigid system has been put in its place.