Spanish (or Gibraltarian or British?) ingenuity,
in suggesting a full constitutional structure
that would, above all, pass the test of popular
acceptance.
The diverse history of Britain's disposal of her imperial heritage contains at least two other examples, which enable us to understand some
more of the subtleties of sovereignty.
Southern Rhodesia (as it was then called) was,
until Ian Smith's Unilateral Declaration of
Independence in 1965 (?) a Crown Colony [or
was it a protectorate?] -but a colony with a difference. For, although it did not figure in
the list of those enjoying dominion status under
the statute of Westminster, Southern Rhodesia's
Prime Minister had, for at least 40 (?) years
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