This document defines key concepts related to states, nations, and globalization. It begins by defining a state as an independent country with a population, common language, and defined territory. A nation refers more to a cultural identity that may cross state boundaries. The document then discusses how states are formed through establishing governments over populations within territories. It explains globalization as influencing nation-states by allowing increased cultural diffusion across state lines.

1. State, Nations, and Globalization
Prepared by: Cherrylyn T. Magano, LPT

2. Objectives
At the end of this lesson, the student should be able to:
1. Define nation and state;
2. Differentiate nation from state;
3. Explain how nation-state is created;
4. Define globalization; and
5. Explain how globalization influences nation-state.

3. A Glimpse Back
In the box below, draw an editorial cartoon showing how power is utilized
by groups or individuals in society. Write a brief explanation of your drawing
below.

4. Test your Stock Knowledge
In the parchment below, list down ten instances that show the concepts of
nation, state, and globalization.

5. State
•Groups of people which have acquired international
recognition as an independent country and which have
a population, a common language and a defined and
distinct territory.
•A state is an organized political community living under
a single system of government.

6. “A state is a community of
persons more or less numerous,
permanently occupying a definite
portion of territory, independent
of external control and
possessing an organized
government to which the great
body of inhabitants render
habitual obedience.”
-Gardner

7. The Elements of the State

8. 1. Population/People
-The State is a human institution. Hence population is it’s
first and foremost element.
-No state can be imagined without the people, as there
must be some rule and others to be ruled.
-State is a community of persons. It is a human political
institution. Without a population there can be no State.
Population can be more or less but it has to be there.

9. 2.Territory
•People cannot constitute a state, unless they habit in a
definite territory.
•Territory is its “material basis” The territory of the state
comprises:
• Land, mountains, rivers and lakes within its frontiers,
•Territorial water, extending six miles into the sea from the
coast
•Air, space, lying above its territory.

10. • A geographical contiguous territory is an asset;
otherwise it creates problems of administration and
control.
• Any interference with rights of one state by others may
lead to wars.
• This is the rationale of the idea contained in the
concept of Respect for Territorial Integrity and
Sovereignty,

11. 3. Government
• A community of persons does not form a state unless it is
organized by established government.

12. Government consists of three branches:
1. Legislature an elected group of people who have the power
to make and change laws in a state or country
2. Executive someone in a high position, esp. in business, who
makes decisions and acts according to them.
3. Judiciary the part of a country’s government that is
responsible for its legal system and that consists of all the
judges in its courts of law

13. Purposes and Objectives of the States that the
Government Seeks to Attain

14. a. Domestic Order and Tranquility
• The primary purpose of the state that its government seeks to
achieve is the maintenance of domestic order and tranquility.

15. b. Common Defence of the States
• Concomitant with maintenance of domestic order and
tranquility, the government also undertakes to defend the state
from external aggression.

16. C. Blessing of Liberty and Justice
• The third objective of the state is to secure for the people the
blessings of liberty and justice. Life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness are the inalienable rights of man. The freedom of
association, freedom of religion, and the rights of person
accused of crimes should not be subject to restrants.

17. D. Promotion of General Welfare
• the government undertakes this by performing service
functions, like the creation of essential public service,
promotions of health and sanitation, regulations of business
and dissemination of public information.

18. E. Promotion of Public Morality
• the state is concerned with value judgments and moral
standards.
• Government should set one code of moral conduct for all,
including officers.

19. 4.Sovereignty
• This is the power of the state to command and enforce
obedience of its will from people.
• It means power over people of an area unrestrained by laws
originating outside the area or independence completely
devoid of direct external control.

20. 4 Kinds of Sovereignty

21. A. Legal sovereignty
• Is the authority which has the power to issue final
commands. This is the supreme power

22. B. Political sovereignty
• Is the power behind the legal sovereignty or the sum of
the influences that operate upon it.
• In a narrower sense electorate constitutes the political
sovereignty and in a broader sense the whole mass of
population.

23. C. Internal sovereignty
• Refers to the power of the state to control its domestic
affairs.

24. D. External sovereignty
• Is the power of the state to direct its relations with other
states.
• The state is not subject to the control dictation, or
government of any power.

25. Analysis Guide
1.Part of the definition of nation-states is that the constituents
more or less share a common cultural and identity. In the
Philippines, which is composed of more than 100 different cultural
groups , what do you think is that common Filipino identity and
culture that binds us?
2. If you were to choose and adapt a foreign cultural trait brought
about by globalization into our country, what would that be ?
Why?
3. Are traditions always outdated and modern things always mean
progress? Why or why not?