Activity 5 IPL

States: power and authority

Activity 5 International public law

Author: Juan Carlos Arias Lozano

XX/XX/20XX

Elements

01

" a community which consists of a territory and a population subject to an organized political authority.”

The state as a person of international law should posses the following qualifications

• Permanent population
• A defined territory
• Government
• Capacity to enter into relations with other states

Permanent population

02

Without population, a State has nothing to rule

02. permanent population

This is a very important element of the State because the population is the human support of the political organization of a State

Government

03

06. METODOLOGÍA

Government

The organization that structures and administrates a State, it can adapt different forms and it is always invested with Sovereignity

Sovereignity

The capacity of a State to make laws and execute them with authority, it also implies indpendence from other countries

A defined territory

04

Territory

The geographical space where the State is lcoated, there is not a required size for a State to be considered such, just as long as it is delimited and recognized by other States

• A State may acquire more territory by:
• Occupation
• Acquired prescription
• Cesion
• Accretion and avulsion
• Conquest and subjugation

“the space within which the State exercises its supreme authority”:

capacity to enter relations with other states

05

Manifestation of the elements

In the lecture this one was listed as an element, but I consider it more like a manifestation of those, a State with well-founded elements, naturally will be recognized and will have the capacity to make relations with other States

Question

07

in the modern world, we always find abuse of power in different ways, in different forms of government, i beleive that some organism of human rights defense, indpendent from the government but still part of the state administration is vital for a better government.

How do you think that those elements should change in order to have a better government in the future?

Bibliography

08

Grant, J. (2010). International Law Essentials. Discovery Press.