Sovereignty

geography

Australia is not part of another country. It is a sovereign country and the world’s smallest continent, located in the Oceania region. Australia is also a constitutional monar...

governance-and-institutions

The question “when was the confederation” points to both a founding date and a longer institutional evolution. A confederation is a union of sovereign entities that pool sel...

jurisdiction-and-extradition

Extradition is a formal legal process by which one country requests another to surrender a person for prosecution or to serve a sentence. Treaties or binding agreements establis...

politics

Popular sovereignty is the idea that a government’s authority comes from the consent of the people it governs. In simple terms, political power resides with the population, wh...

sovereignty

Sovereignty is the foundational capacity of a state to govern itself, free from external control, and to exercise supreme authority within its territory. This evergreen explaine...

indigenous-peoples

The Coquille Indian Tribe are Indigenous peoples of the Coquille River Valley and coastal region of what is now Oregon. Ancestral villages, seasonal salmon runs, and cedar-based...

identity-and-governance

Blood quantum is a measure of the degree of Indigenous ancestry an individual has, expressed as a fraction such as one-half (1/2) or one-quarter (1/4). It is typically calculate...