OBJECTIVE
Define nation and state;
Differentiate nation from state.

ACTIVITY
• Divide the class in three groups.
• Each will receive metacards with scrambled
words and letters
• The students will arrange the words and letters
to form definitions

NATION
• a group of persons belonging to one community,
having one culture and language, living the same
experience
• does not necessarily have a territory or
government
• technically, it refers to the PEOPLE

NATION-STATE
• it has people, territory, government and sovereignty
• homogenous (one) culture, language, experience and
ethnicity
• an ideal one but difficult to achieve
• the closest example is Japan, yet there are ethnic diffferences
among the Japanese people

STATE
• community of persons, more or less numerous, living in
a specific territory, having a government that
commands obedience within the territory and is free
from external control
• elements: people, territory, government and
sovereignty

ELEMENTS
PEOPLE
population living in the territory
citizens of the state
to some extent includes foreigners staying in
the state as they are covered by the
sovereignty of the state

TERRITORY
 the jurisdiction of the state
 includes three doamins: terrestrial (land), fluvial (water),
aerial (air/sky)
 determination of territories is stipulated on the UNCLOS(UN
Convention on the Law of the Seas)
 in PH, archipelagic doctrine is at work; refers to the
stipulation that an archipelago is treated as ONE
 12 nautical mile boundary starting from the outermost
territory

GOVERNMENT
an agency where the will of the state is
manifested
charged with management, administration
and governance within the jurisdiction and
all the resources within the state

SOVEREIGNTY
 the power of the state
 internal sovereignty - will to command
obedience within the territory
 external sovereignty - freedom from external
control
 independence