Sovereign state

later legislative bodies in the newly created United States, to being a sovereign entity that is just as powerful – if not more so – than the legislative bodies under which it was once ruled. With the rise of corporate sovereignty, politics and the market have become deeply intertwined, so much so that the sovereignty of the corporation now poses a substantial threat by undermining democracy to support their ever-expanding empires. As Sklar states in The Corporate Reconstruction and the…

Watson attempts to create a historical survey of the states systems that were formed in Europe and then spread to the “civilized” world. This states systems was challenged after World War II by the anti-colonial revolution and the demands of the Third World states for a new international order. Watson tries to move beyond on the mechanistic and sterile concept of international system to the more focused and perhaps more complicated concept of international society. Watson focuses on the global…

been argued that on the international stage, states were the dominant actors. Donelan in the late 1970s writes that “‘State’ is central to sovereignty, war, intervention and the rest of the old list” which suggests that states were very important, fundamental even to international society. Some such as Lacher suggest that “globalisation… [is] deeply implicated in (though not solely responsible for) the undermining of the state’s previously sovereign place in humanity’s social and spatial…

customary law is conflicting with the Constitution. If this would be the situation, legislation will then need to implement the law (Nantais, 2018). In general, the monist philosophy considers domestic and international laws as a form of unity in a states’ legal…

a democracy is not a unknown concept for them, but the success of democracy depend on whether the United States take into consideration the unique social and communal population or the system was chosen because it have been prove to work for them. A confederation is an alliance of sovereign states united for common objectives, this system is supposed to unite the different colonies, states or factions. This system also benefits the smaller factions due the use of a single vote, each faction…

people have done in the past. There have been so many wrongs in the past that some people still feel the need to be apologizing for them, and some people still feel they are owed an apology from the governments of the involved countries. In “A Sorry State”, Mitch Miyagawa discusses the many apologies that have been given out by governments around the world and what those apologies truly accomplish. There has been an apology given for every war, every case of discrimination, and every misguided…

similarities with Mozi, but they actually have far more in common when it comes to how they believe a government should be run. The ideal state in both Daoist, and Mohist thought operate in such a way that they are highly similar, not so much as explicit structure, but more so in the underlying roots of legitimacy, the basis of laws, and the role of the state to bring order. The foundation of Laozi’s philosophy is that to create order, a ruler cannot become tied up in making moral distinctions…

At the crux of Locke’s Second Treatise on Government is the idea that there is a natural law under which we all fall under, but in order to ensure these freedoms are protected from exploitation we create societies and governments. However, there is some grey area when it comes to determining whether or not a person has given consent to the government, and at what point the governmental system crosses the line in exercising its power and thereby loses its legitimacy and can rightfully be…

" To what extent in the U.S. does the government-federal, state, and local-have the duty to monitor the internet content? I find myself pondering the argument of if it is okay for the government to watch internet activity. In some circumstances I am in favor of the U.S. government-federal, state, and local watching over what we do on the internet. Sometimes it can benefit us when solving crimes such as, the ""Dark web"" or pre-planned murder. For instance, Casey Anthony who researched on…

interested solely in power, pure power” (Orwell 332). In 1984 the Party did many unethical things to keep their power for example, they killed people, manipulated people, lied to people and tortured people. “One combination or another, these three super-states are permanently at war, and have been so for the past twenty-five years. War, [was] no longer the desperate, annihilating struggle that it was in the early decades of the twentieth century. It [was] a warfare of limited aims between…