Practice question
An otherwise qualified territorial entity has a permanent population of only 40,000. An analyst asserts that the Montevideo formulation disqualifies it because statehood requires at least one million residents. Is the stated numerical objection sound?
- Yes, because one million is the express treaty threshold.
- Yes, because small communities can have no government.
- Yes, because population is irrelevant unless economically dominant.
- No; the cited criteria require a permanent population but prescribe no one-million minimum.
- No, because a permanent population is unnecessary.
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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