The law almost always crisps things up, so the maritime example is not in
practice a gradual fading of sovereignty, but has crisp sharp steps at
mean low water mark, at 3 miles, at 12 miles, at 200 miles, etc.
The Florida federal case also was not a gradual boundary in space...
David
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, m donner wrote:
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> >From: David
> >
> >Does anyone know of any current or past cases of "graded" sovereignty,
> >that is, of one country grading or blending gradually into another?
> >
> >That is, at this point it is 100% "country A", and over there 90%
> "country
> >A", 10% "country B". And then 70% "A", 30% "B", then 50-50, then 20%
> "A",
> >80% "B", and finally 100% "B"? Sort of a condominium zone in which one
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> >country gradually gives way to the other?
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> well isnt this basically what happens in maritime boundary law as land
> territory phases into territorial seas & then into eezs & then into
> additional continental shelf claims & finally into pure high seas
>
> in the course of all which gradual subtractions of national
> sovereignty are accompanied by corresponding accumulations of everyonese
> sovereignty
>
> & to think you just said last week that you were not very interested
> in such maritime distinctions
>
> but hang on for more wiseacrings from me below
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> >
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> >If not at the national level, any examples at the subnational level?
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> i think we saw very vividly during the drama of election 2000 how the
> sovereignties not only of the state of florida but even of its individual
> counties & their individual officials & voters often checked or even
> outweighed the sovereignties of supposedly more sovereign entities than
> themselves
>
> but really what i think you may be grasping at here david is how the
> whole notion of national sovereignty is crumbling before our very eyes as
> we move into the postmonarchical world
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> & how its undoing gains momentum as more & more of us ordinary people
> realize our personal divinity
>
> & how within this evolution is born the idea nay the inevitability of
> everyones land
>
> m
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> >
> >David
> >
> >
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