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** This is most blatant in [[Washington DC]]. Congress can and frequently does override the city's locally elected government for its own benefit.
* Historically the Kingdom of Ryukyu was this to Japan, or more specifically the Satsuma, the most powerful feudal lords of southern Kyushu. Following the Meiji Restoration and the Satsuma Rebellion, it was annexed outright to become the modern day prefecture of Okinawa.
* For much of history actual sovereignty was a more confusing thing then in a modern Western style nation-state. The top monarch(or top "corporate monarch" in the rare cases of a pre-modern republic)was theoretically sovereign in the sense that he gave homage to no mortal though sometimes he had so little actual power that he could barely tell his servants which floor to scrub. Below him were clients and clients of clients and so on ad infinitum down to [[The Clan]], all combining in various alliances and conspiracies, and internal arrangements of their own and often even fighting [[Feuding Families|private wars.]]
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