ENV250Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Twelve Tables, De Jure, Contiguity
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The 19th century - canada becomes canada (arctic nation) The 20th century - world wars and aboriginal rights. Sovereignty is a political concept - it is and always has been in flux. What happens in the arctic in the 21st century will change the world. De jure - supreme power or title over a specific territory by political or legal right recognized by other nations. As we understand it, when we own or have title. De facto: having power in fact or in real terms - usually without the political or legal inherent in de jure sovereignty. You can have one without the other and sometimes you can have both. Us doesn"t question de jure sovereignty of canada currently, they have before. Discovery - setting borders on maps, europeans discovering the new worlds. Cession - somebody else can give it to you. Contiguity - occupy it even though someone else discovered it, you lived there longest making it yours.
