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  2. Vienna Convention on Succession of States in Respect of ...

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    The Vienna Convention on Succession of States in Respect of Treaties is an international treaty opened for signature in 1978 to set rules on succession of states. It was adopted partly in response to the "profound transformation of the international community brought about by the decolonization process".

  3. Succession of states - Wikipedia

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    A universal state succession occurs when one state is completely extinguished and its sovereignty is replaced by that of one or more successor states. A partial state succession occurs when successor state(s) succeed only part of a state's land and sovereignty, which continues to exist where succession has not taken place. [3]

  4. Article Four of the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new States shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.

  5. State responsibility - Wikipedia

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    The topic of state responsibility was one of the first 14 areas provisionally selected for the ILC's attention in 1949. [7] When the ILC listed the topic for codification in 1953, "state responsibility" was distinguished from a separate topic on the "treatment of aliens", reflecting the growing view that state responsibility encompasses the breach of an international obligation.

  6. File:States succession in respect of treaties.pdf - Wikipedia

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    Page:States succession in respect of treaties.pdf/12; Page:States succession in respect of treaties.pdf/17; Page:States succession in respect of treaties.pdf/14; Page:States succession in respect of treaties.pdf/15; Page:States succession in respect of treaties.pdf/16; Page:States succession in respect of treaties.pdf/13; Usage on zh.wikipedia.org

  7. Hague Convention on Parental Responsibility and Protection of ...

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    The Hague Convention on parental responsibility and protection of children, or Hague Convention 1996, officially Convention of 19 October 1996 on Jurisdiction, Applicable Law, Recognition, Enforcement and Co-operation in respect of Parental Responsibility and Measures for the Protection of Children or Hague Convention 1996 is a convention of the Hague Conference on Private International Law ...

  8. States' rights - Wikipedia

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    Resolved, That the union of these States rests on the equality of rights and privileges among its members, and that it is especially the duty of the Senate, which represents the States in their sovereign capacity, to resist all attempts to discriminate either in relation to person or property, so as, in the Territories—which are the common ...

  9. Order of succession - Wikipedia

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    An order, line or right of succession is the line of individuals necessitated to hold a high office when it becomes vacated, such as head of state or an honour such as a title of nobility. [1] This sequence may be regulated through descent or by statute.