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United States territory can include occupied territory, which is a geographic area that claims sovereignty, but is being forcibly subjugated to the authority of the United States of America. United States territory can also include disputed territory , which is a geographic area claimed by the United States of America and one (or more) rival ...
Today, no state is sovereign in the sense they were prior to the Second World War. [34] Transnational governance agreements and institutions, the globalized economy, [35] and pooled sovereignty unions such as the European union have eroded the sovereignty of traditional states. The centuries long movement which developed a global system of ...
1823 Guatemala (Federal Republic of Central America) 1841 Guatemala: Haiti: Captaincy General of Santo Domingo [14] [15] 1625 Saint-Domingue 1804 Haiti [14] [15] Honduras: Pre-Columbian Honduras: 1525 New Spain 1821 Honduras 1823 Honduras (Federal Republic of Central America) 1840 Honduras: Jamaica: Pre-Columbian Jamaica
American revolutionaries aimed to substitute the sovereignty in the person of King George III, with a collective sovereign—composed of the people. Thenceforth, American revolutionaries generally agreed with and were committed to the principle that governments were legitimate only if they rested on popular sovereignty – that is, the ...
The dominant customary international law standard of statehood is the declarative theory of statehood, which was codified by the Montevideo Convention of 1933. The Convention defines the state as a person of international law if it "possess[es] the following qualifications: (a) a permanent population; (b) a defined territory; (c) government; and (d) a capacity to enter into relations with the ...
Westphalian sovereignty is the concept of nation-state sovereignty based on territoriality and the absence of a role for external agents in domestic structures. It is an international system of states, multinational corporations , and organizations that began with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648.
Popular sovereignty is the principle that the leaders of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people, who are the source of all political legitimacy. Popular sovereignty, being a principle, does not imply any particular political implementation.
The American territories differ from the U.S. states and Indian reservations in that they are not sovereign entities. [note 2] In contrast, each state has a sovereignty separate from that of the federal government and each federally recognized Native American tribe possesses limited tribal sovereignty as a "dependent sovereign nation". [2]