Shaw, Malcolm Nathan.International law. — Cambridge University Press, 2003. — С. 178.. — «Article 1 of the Montevideo Convention on Rights and Duties of States, 1 lays down the most widely accepted formulation of the criteria of statehood in international law. It note that the state as an international person should possess the following qualifications: '(a) a permanent population; (b) a defined territory; (c) government; and (d) capacity to enter into relations with other states'».
Wheaton, Henry.Elements of international law: with a sketch of the history of the science (англ.). — Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1836. — P. 51.. — «A sovereign state is generally defined to be any nation or people, whatever may be the form of its internal constitution, which governs itself independently of foreign powers.».
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Ralph Wilde, ‘From trusteeship to self-determination and back again: the role of the Hague Regulations in the evolution of international trusteeship, and the framework of rights and duties of occupying powers,’ Fall, 2009, 31 Loy. L.A. Int’l & Comp. L. Rev. 85, page 94, [1]Архивная копия от 10 марта 2012 на Wayback Machine
"sovereign", The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (4th ed.), Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004, Архивировано из оригинала 7 октября 2015, Дата обращения: 21 февраля 2010, adj. 1. Self-governing; independent: a sovereign state.
"sovereign", The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (4th ed.), Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004, Архивировано из оригинала 7 октября 2015, Дата обращения: 21 февраля 2010, adj. 1. Self-governing; independent: a sovereign state.
Ralph Wilde, ‘From trusteeship to self-determination and back again: the role of the Hague Regulations in the evolution of international trusteeship, and the framework of rights and duties of occupying powers,’ Fall, 2009, 31 Loy. L.A. Int’l & Comp. L. Rev. 85, page 94, [1]Архивная копия от 10 марта 2012 на Wayback Machine
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Perspectives on international law / Jasentuliyana, Nandasiri. — Kluwer Law International[англ.], 1995. — С. 20.. — «So far as States are concerned, the traditional definitions provided for in the Montevideo Convention remain generally accepted.».
