Assertion: u.s.'s state | /r/HasProperty | equal
Facets:
value: in international law
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: While each state government within the United States holds legal and administrative jurisdiction within its bounds, they are not sovereign in the Westphalian sense in international law which says that each State has sovereignty over its territory and domestic affairs, to the exclusion of all external powers, on the principle of non-interference in another State's domestic affairs, and that each State (no matter how large or small) is equal in international law.
text: The Connecticut Compromise gave every state, large and small, an equal vote in the Senate.
text: States, however, are not sovereign in the Westphalian sense in international law which says that each State has sovereignty over its territory and domestic affairs, to the exclusion of all external powers, on the principle of non-interference in another State's domestic affairs, and that each State (no matter how large or small) is equal in international law.
text: He proposed that in the second 'senate' branch of the legislature, each state should be equal, one vote and no more.[n]
text: States admitted are equals, they will be made up of our brethren.