Name: Flores, Jabriel Zeth
Grade & Section: 11B
Nation and State
Answer the questions below
1.
Why are nomadic tribes not considered a
state?
Nomadic tribes are not considered a state
because the people do not permanently occupy a
definite territory.
3.
Give a situation wherein a government
can exist independently from a state
If a country has a government but lacks even one
of the other three elements of the state (i.e.,
population, territory, or sovereignty), it is not a
state. Questions 1, 2, and 4 are examples of it. For
example, if a nation only has a semi-autonomous
government where it has control over the
executive, legislative, and judiciary branches but
is under the occupation or control of another
nation, it has a government but no (external)
sovereignty, thus, is not a state.
5.
Is Philippines, a nation or a state?
The Philippines is both a nation and a state. It is a
nation because the inhabitants have a shared
culture (Filipino culture) and language (Filipino as
national language). On the other hand, the
Philippines is also a state because it has a self-
perpetuating population (109.6 million Filipinos), a
definite territory (see image), a government, and
sovereignty (since July 4, 1946). Thus, the
Philippines is a nation-state.
Teacher: Sir Adrian Villaflor
Date: 03/08/2022
2.
If an independent all-male community, with its
own government occupying a definite
territory exist, can we consider it a state?
No, because even though they have all four
elements of the state and has an enough number
of members to execute the functions of the state,
the community is not self-perpetuating. Meaning,
they do not have the means to continue and have
future generations because they do not have
female members to reproduce with. An all-male
community will never have offspring; thus, the
community will eventually have a 0 population.
4.
Is there a Philippine-state during the
Commonwealth Period 1935 - 1946?
No. During the Commonwealth government led by
Manuel L. Quezon, the government has internal
sovereignty because it writes and implements its
own laws. But it didn’t have external sovereignty
because America still controls the military and
foreign relations of the Philippines. So, the
country had a government but was not a state due
to the lack of external sovereignty.