Philippine Country

What defines a country?

• A land with borders

• A place with people (population) who share culture, economy and follow the government rules

• A place with a government that makes rules and plans to improve the lives of the population

• A place where people do not follow rules.

What was defined during the Montevideo Conference of 1933?

• Created the land borders of the Philippines

• Created the water borders of the Philippines

• The Americans bought the Philippines from the Spanish for USD20,000,000

• Defining a country by declarative or constitutive means

The Declarative Theory of defining a country as per the Montevideo Convention in 1933 states the ff (choose all correct answers):

• the country has defined territory or borders

• the country has a population

• the country has a government

• the country has relations with others

• the country has to be recognized by another country

The Constitutive Theory of defining a country as per the Montevideo Convention in 1933 states the ff (choose all correct answers):

• A country must have a permanent population
• A country must have a defined territory
• A country must have a government
• A country must have the capacity to enter into relations with other states
• A country must be recognized by other countries

_________ serves as the right of the country to exercise power. Country's special power to be in charge of it's land and population.

• declarative

• sovereignity

• Independence Day

• The Treaty of Paris

What are the 2 kinds of sovereignty?

• Legal and Political
• Internal

• External

• Monarchical and Democratic
• Constitutive Theory

What is internal sovereignty?

• The ability of a state to govern its own citizens
• to be recognized by other coutries

• The ability of a state to interact with other states
• This was determined during the Treaty of Washington in 1900

What is external sovereignty?

• The ability of a state or country to be with friends with other countries and have relations with them

• The ability of a state to control its internal affairs
• The ability of a state to control its economic resources
• This means having aerial, fluvial, terrestial domain.

What is a population?

• terrestial, aerial, fluvial domain

• rules to protect the people

• People who live in the country and are responsible for defending and protecting the country.

• being friends with other countries

What is the population of the Philippines?

• 30,000

• 1,234,567

• 114,131,154

• 9,876