Practice question
A worldwide digital association has two million members, an elected council and commercial contracts in fifty countries. Its charter identifies no territorial base over which it exercises independent public authority; members remain subject to their respective States. The association claims statehood solely from its membership and international contracts. Which conclusion best applies the cited criteria?
- Large membership alone supplies every statehood element.
- Commercial contracts are equivalent to sovereign relations among States.
- An elected council automatically converts any association into a State.
- A website is necessarily defined sovereign territory.
- Its listed features do not establish the required territorial and independent governmental/external capacities.
Legal references
- Province of North Cotabato v. GRP Peace Panel, G.R. No. 183591 et al., October 14, 2008, main decision: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/1/47263
- Montevideo Convention on Rights and Duties of States, December 26, 1933, Articles 1 and 3: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/intam03.asp
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