What is a Sovereign State?

Mr. Driscoll and Mr. Rose introduce the four elements of a "sovereign state:" Population, Territory, Sovereignty & Government.

They finish up with a quick discussion about the four major roles of government: to make laws, protect the state, keep order & provide services.

[Britt.]

This is a very direct and useful video!
Thankyou

[elcapitan]

2:00 Well let's see if anything comes of that. Exactly what you spoke about, now ongoing turmoil. (april 5, 2022)

[wilsoncoronado]

Very good vid: easy to follow, enjoy the student Nd teacher role-playing, and teaching format.

[josanamaharjan]

Thank you for the video. It was useful

[larrybell]

You are correct. This should be taught in elementary schools.

[bryannguyen]

Thank you so much, this was heaps helpful

[africarenee]

So when Darrell Brooks says he's a sovereign citizen, it's B.S. because he's American citizen, and susceptible to all our laws? If a person from a sovereign country comes here and commits a crime can we at least arrest him? What happens? 👀😶💙🦋🇺🇲

[thembanitheone]

Assert, the right of self-determination. It's in the UN charter actually

[SuperGreatSphinx]

The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct.

He was obsolete.

But so is the State, the entity he worshiped.

Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody.

When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all.

Any state, any entity, any ideology which fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man... that state is obsolete.

A case to be filed under "M" for "Mankind" - in The Twilight Zone.

[graceilamolina]

I would like to us about the Philippines, is the Philippines a state or a sovereignity state ? Pls i would like to know.

[thembanitheone]

Ok back to work, I have to prove my PR competence.

[davidhorsley]

I Am David Horsley the Cherokee Nation we have our own sovereignty lost to as a state Nation within the state

[Chrisplumbgas]

Can another country/countries tell a country eg. The world, tell china they should close the wet markets?

[sinirfox]

So if my body is made up of individual cells and my mind has the ability for moral judgement and my body has boundaries and a clearly defined border my territory is contained within the bounds and borders of my person ....what is there to be said for individual sovereignty?

Perhaps it is through individual sovereignty that sovereignty of the state can even be considered.

[chaddisrud]

A US State is a sovereign State. It has the unalienable legal right to leave the union if it wishes as it is a nation. If this rtight is ever infringed, then war is legitimate. What the seceding States did in the 1860's did was completely legal. What the US federal government did in response was not only unethical, but, illegal. Every union soldier who fought the CSA was acting unlawfully and unethically and should be classified as a villain and criminal. State sovereignty is the cornerstone to liberty. This is fundamental to the United States.

[thembanitheone]

Game of thrones is not a predictive modeling tool Lord stannis. And neither is Cassius Boris Johnson

[mavdotj]

"Russia Took part of that, its no longer a part of Ukraine, We'll See if anything else comes of that"

[snakemadness]

The devils lettuce is telling my brain Warning ! Warning ! Brain overload Brain overload lol

[logicalconceptofficial]

To say that you mean "state" differently than a state like Rhode Island shows ignorance of our constitution and the federation we call the USA. Our 50 states, though we often act like a single sovereign country, are all technically sovereign states like Iraq or Syria with their own constitutions and governments that entered into a federation based on the understanding that the states and their people would retain a high degree of sovereignty (anything that wasn't expressly placed under the jurisdiction of the federal government in the constitution). Sometimes a state entering a federation or other international organization does mean giving up state sovereignty but in the US our constitution preserves a great degree of state sovereignty implicitly in the articles of the constitution (by limiting the power of the federal government with the enumerated powers clause) and explicitly in the bill of rights (10th amendment). I know it wasn't necessarily your main point but if you're teaching kids about the US government at least get it right. I'm worried that even teachers don't understand what the tenth amendment means or that the US is a federation of 50 sovereign nation states. The fact that our states chose, through their sovereignty, to join the federal system doesn't change that. If having given up some aspects of self determination/governance means you can't be a sovereign nation state then theres hardly a country in the EU that could be considered a sovereign state, but last time I checked people weren't that strict about the definition and we still consider Italy, France and Greece to be sovereign nations even if bureaucrats in Brussels call a lot of the shots!

[Devildog]

It would have been nice if you would of read some of our founding documents before making this video; start with the Lee Resolution from July 2nd 1776 (our divorce papers from the State of Great Britain), The Declaration of Independence (why we separated from The State of Great Britain), the Constitution of the United States of America and the Constitution of each State in America; all these documents explain State sovereignty from the Federal Government. Each State is it's own COUNTRY in the union of States known as America. In all this video is misleading and false on how you claim that America is a Country when in reality it's a union of Countries. thanks for you attempt of truth, falling short of FACTS.