The Contemporary World - Module 3 Lesson 1

This is the entire body of those citizens of a state who are invested with political power for political purposes (Black’s Law Dictionary, 6th edition).

• State

• People

• Nation

External sovereignty is the power of an independent state to control and direct its external affairs such as the authority to enter into treaties with other states, to wage warm, and to ___ and ___ diplomatic missions.

the totality of authorities which rule a society by prescribing and carrying out fundamental rules which regulate the freedom of its members.

• Territory

• People

• Government

a community of persons, more or less numerous, occupying a definite territory, possessing an organized government, and enjoying independence from external control.

• Nation

• State

• Government

• People

State is more of a political concept while nation is racial or ethical. However, ___ and ___ are often used interchangeably.

What are the kinds of de facto government?

• Illegitimate government

• Government by Occupation

• Legitimate government

• Government by Secession

• Government by Revolutions

It is the assignment, transfer, or yielding up of territory by one state or government to another. Cession may be in the form of sale or donation. For example, for 20 million dollars, the Spanish government on December 10, 1898 ceded the Philippine archipelago to the United States of America through the Treaty of Paris.

• Subjugation and Annexation

• Cession

• Accretion

• Prescription

It is the mode of acquiring a territory through continuous and undisputed exercise of sovereignty over it during such period as is necessary to create under the influence of historical development the general conviction that the present condition of things is in conformity with international order (Public International Law).

• Subjugation and Annexation

• Prescription

• Accretion

• Cession

It is a mode of acquiring a territory belonging to a state of by occupation and conquest made by another state in the course of war and by annexation at the end of the war.

• Cession

• Subjugation and Annexation

• Prescription

• Accretion

It is another mode of acquiring territory by addition of portions of soil, either artificial such as teh reclamation area in Manila Bay, or natural by gradual deposition through the operation of natural causes such as the waves of the ocean.

• Cession

• Accretion

• Subjugation and Annexation

• Prescription