Sovereignty means having the power to make or change any law.<p>And our elected leaders should have that power so that bad laws can be fixed.<p>Imagine if, in pre-civil-war America a lot of British investors had invested in cotton plantations whose profitability depended on slavery. Should Lincoln have said &quot;gee, I guess my hands are tied, banning slavery would be bad for our foreign investors&quot; and done nothing?<p>You might argue that in the past we had bad laws, but we don&#x27;t have bad laws any more and all our laws are perfect. But the fact we still employ legislators rather implies we think we might need some legislating done.