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10 APLPJ 1 (2008-2009)

handle is hein.journals/aplpj10 and id is 1 raw text is: The Historical Context and Legal Basis of the Philippine Treaty Limits Lowell B. Bautista* I. IN TR OD U CTIO N ..................................................................................... 2 A. Territorial Integrity as an International Legal Norm ............... 3 B. The Philippine Nation-State ..................................................... 6 1. The Philippine Archipelago as a Single Territorial Entity ..... 6 2. The Philippine Declaration of Independence .................... 8 II. THE CESSION OF THE PHILIPPINES FROM SPAIN TO THE US .............. 9 A. State Succession in International Law ..................................... 9 B. The Spanish Title over the Philippine Archipelago ................. 12 C. The American Title over the Philippine Archipelago .............. 14 D. Treaties Defining the Philippine Treaty Limits ........................ 15 1. The Treaty of Paris of 1898 ............................................. 16 2. The Cession Treaty of 1900 ............................................ 19 3. The Boundaries Treaty of 1930 ...................................... 20 III. THE TERRITORIAL BOUNDARIES OF THE PHILIPPINES ......................... 21 A. Historic Rights in International Law ..................................... 21 B. The Philippine Historic Right of Title over the Treaty Limits ..... 23 C. The Juridical Function of the Boundaries .............................. 26 IV . C ONCLUSION .................................................................................. 29 Ph.D. Candidate, Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security, Faculty of Law, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia (2006 to present); L.L.M., Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) (2005); Diploma, Rhodes Academy of Ocean Law and Policy (Rhodes, Greece) (2003); L.L.B, University of the Philippines (2002); B.A. Political Science, cum laude, University of the Philippines (1998). This paper was submitted as a chapter in the author's Ph.D. dissertation in progress entitled, The Legal Status of the Philippine Treaty Limits and Territorial Water Claim in International Law: National and International Legal Perspectives. The author wishes to thank his supervisors Prof. Martin Tsamenyi and Dr. Clive Schofield for their helpful comments and I Made Andi Arsana for drawing the map depicting the Philippine Treaty Limits.

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