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Subjects of International Law

Entities endowed with rights and obligations in the international order are subjects of international law. States are entities that have international personality, which requires a people or population, territory over which it exercises sovereignty, a government, and sovereignty as the supreme power over the people and territory.

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Subjects of International Law

Entities endowed with rights and obligations in the international order are subjects of international law. States are entities that have international personality, which requires a people or population, territory over which it exercises sovereignty, a government, and sovereignty as the supreme power over the people and territory.

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IV.

SUBJECTS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW

*Entities endowed with rights and obligations in the international order and possessing the capacity to take certain kinds of action
on the international plane, i.e. those who have international personality

STATES

A. Elements

1. People or Population

- A community of persons sufficient in number and capable of maintaining the permanent existence of the community and
held together by a common bond of law.

2. Territory

- The fixed portion of the surface of the earth inhabited by the people of the State and over which an entity exercises
permanent sovereignty

- Includes the terrestrial, aerial, fluvial and XXX portions of the territory

3. Government

- is the agency or instrumentality through which the will of the State is formulated, expressed and realized

4. Sovereignty

- is the supreme and uncontrollable power inherent in a State by which the State is governed

- includes independence from outside control

- sovereignty resides in the people and all government authority emanates from them (1987 Constitution)

~ Internal Sovereignty

- refers to the power of the state to direct its domestic affairs, as when it establishes its government, enacts laws for
observance within its territory, or adopts economic policies

~ External Sovereignty

- signifies the freedom of the state to control its own foreign affairs as when it concludes treaties, makes war or peace,
and maintains diplomatic and commercial relations
5. Recognition of States

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