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A_____ is a community of persons, more or less numerous, occupying a definite territory, possessing an organized government, and enjoying independence from external control.
state
______ is defined as people or aggregation of men, existing in the form of an organized society, usually inhabiting a distinct portion of the earth, speaking the same language, using the same customs, possessing historic continuity, and distinguished from other groups, like by their racial origin and characteristics, and generally, but not necessarily, living under the same government and sovereignty ______
Nation
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). It is necessary to the existence of the state. There can be no functionaries to govern and no subjects to be governed without the _____
People.
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.. It is a geographical area under the jurisdiction of another country or sovereign power or state
Territory
A state may acquire a territory by discovering a continent, an island or land with no inhabitants or occupied by uncivilized inhabitants, and thereafter, occupying it by placing it under its political administration
Discovery and Occupation.
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).
Prescription.
It is the assignment, transfer, or yielding up of territory by one state or government to another.
Secession.
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 w
Subjugation and Annexation.
It is another mode of acquiring territory by addition of portions of soil, either artificial such as the reclamation area in Manila Bay, or natural by gradual deposition through the operation of natural causes such as the waves of the ocean.
Accretion.
is the totality of authorities which rule a society by prescribing and carrying out fundamental rules which regulate the freedom of its members.
. Government
This is established according to the constitution, and lawfully entitled to recognition and supremacy and administration of the nation, but which is actually cut off from power or contro
De jure or legitimate government.
A government that maintains itself by a display of force against the will of the rightful legal government and is successful, at least temporarily, in overturning the institutions of the rightful government by setting its own in lieu thereo
De facto or illegitimate government.
is a government established by the inhabitants who rise in revolt against and depose the legitimate regime.
Government by Revolutions
is a government established by the inhabitants of a state who secede there from without overthrowing its government.
Government by Secession
is a government established in the course of war by the invading forces of one belligerent country in the territory of another belligerent country, the government of which is also displaced.
Government by Occupation
