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  2. Succession of states - Wikipedia

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    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] An example of a partial state succession is the case of the secession of Bangladesh from Pakistan. There was no challenge to Pakistan's claim to continue to exist and ...

  3. 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. [1] Hereditary government form differs from elected government.

  4. Vienna Convention on Succession of States in Respect of State ...

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    The Vienna Convention on Succession of States in Respect of State Property, Archives and Debts generally adopted subsidiary rules, privileging agreement amongst the concerned States. The only exception is the applicable rules regarding the newly independent States, stating that agreements cannot overrule the principle of permanent sovereignty ...

  5. 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".

  6. Gubernatorial lines of succession in the United States

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    The following is the planned order of succession for the governorships of the 50 U.S. states, Washington, D.C., and the five organized territories of the United States, according to the constitutions (and supplemental laws, if any) of each. [1] Some states make a distinction whether the succeeding individual is acting as governor or becomes ...

  7. State (polity) - Wikipedia

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    The state is the organization while the government is the particular group of people, the administrative bureaucracy that controls the state apparatus at a given time. [50] [51] [52] That is, governments are the means through which state power is employed. States are served by a continuous succession of different governments. [52]

  8. List of monarchies by order of succession - Wikipedia

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    State of Qatar [37] Emir: Agnatic primogeniture Kingdom of Thailand [38] King: Male primogeniture Kingdom of Tonga [39] King Tuvalu [40] King: Absolute primogeniture United Arab Emirates [41] President: Agnatic primogeniture United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland [42] King: Absolute primogeniture Vatican City State [43] Pope: Elective

  9. Monarchy - Wikipedia

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    Monarchies, though, have applied state symbols like insignia or abstracts like the concept of the Crown to create a state identity, which is to be carried and occupied by the monarch, but represents the monarchy even in absence and succession of the monarch.