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De facto government
A de facto government is a government wherein all the attributes of sovereignty have, by
usurpation, been transferred from those who had been legally invested with them to others,
who, sustained by a power above the forms of law, claim to act and do really act in their stead.
Internal sovereignty
External sovereignty, is the right of a nation to be free from external forces of interference
that would challenge, disrupt, or remove the rights & freedoms of that nation to exist & to
govern its own territory & society.
Internal sovereignty is the right of a nation to be free of internal forces of disruption to its
rights & freedoms to exercise the internal governance of its society & territories.
Inernal sovereignty can be further subdivided to include the rights & freedoms of subsets of
the sovereign nation to exercise their constitutional, or otherwise defined rights of
governance within their regional boundaries. These subsets typically comprise provinces,
states, territorial regions & municipalities.