"Untitled" by Jake

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The purpose of this blog post is to bring to light the issue of many territories and States wanting to rule themselves or become sovereign states. This is a very controversial and widespread issue due to the fact that many places want to rule themselves instead of the country that they are currently in making up all of their rules, declaring War and Peace, and imposing taxes and levies and all sorts of other acts that only a governing power can enthrall. This issue is not only one of the past, such as the United States having a civil war over whether or not they had the right to break off of the United States and become their own country, but it is a very current one in which many states or territories, mostly in Africa, want to have free rule over themselves instead of having another country decide whether or not laws should be passed or how they should run the territory. This is even relevant here in the US where many Native American tribes want to have the right of Sovereign State powers in the lands that they got back that were originally stripped away from their ancestors. In accordance to countries that want to become sovereign or had became already sovereign,  South Sudan comes to mind. The Civil War that erupted in Africa in 2005 was finally resolved and South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in 2011. This is why sovereignty is so controversial. For a place to become its own country or its own territory that it rules itself, it will have to either break off from a country using force or negotiate some sort of system.In South Sudan's case and the failed case of the Southern United States in its Civil War,  these territories had to resolve to violence to get their way. Even though South Sudan did get the right to become a sovereign state it is still innocence reliant on other people.It is going through Famine and it has very unstable government and limited freedom,  but it is it's own State nonetheless.A continuing problem in this scenario is that the state itself doesn't always do the best on its own. It's just like a kid that just moved out of his parents house because he wanted to be his own person and then he figures out that he has to do everything himself. All of these newly sovereign states want to be independent,  but they don't know how. They've been supported by this huge crutch of a good economy and  laws that they have always followed. This becomes dangerous when the states feel threatened or are back into a corner by another state that is threatening them or their initial state that they broke free from. Another danger of the states is that they don't always take end in mind the territory that they own or govern breaking off from the initial country or state,  may have supported the people better than they are.This put the burden on the people that wanted to live in the original country that don't have enough money or have family in the territory that broke off from the original. What's bad is a country that wanted to be independent,  that starts doing bad won't say anything about it or report anything about it so nobody can help. This puts the people inside this territory at risk. The sovereign state is the government of the new world. It's a fantasy that once you gain independence all your problems go away. This is not true in the slightest.  you still have an economy that is based on the one from your previous country,  new sets of laws, and people who wanted to break off from that original country that want things to change. If change is not brought forth,  or not brought forth in the way they want,  revolutions,  riots,  and even Civil Wars made break out. Sovereign countries or States not only bring Independence but also a chance to fall apart in the making. Remember, you may have a broken foot, but you have a crutch to lean on instead of trying to fix the foot yourself.

http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Sovereign+nation

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