Federal-free area
In law, politics and administration, an area within a state that belongs to the area of one of its constituent states , but not at the same time also to the area of the entire state, is referred to as a non- federal area .
The term can also be applied to confederations of states and generally to (confederate) multilevel systems in which an area belongs to a part ( member state , element) but not to the whole (federal government, system).
examples are
- historically the part of the Grand Duchy of Hesse south of the Main Line , which did not belong to the federal state of North German Confederation (1867–1871),
- historically the parts of Prussia and Austria that did not belong to the German Confederation (1815–1866), see the list of territories in the German Confederation ,
- South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands as a dependent area of the United Kingdom and the Faroe Islands as part of Denmark, which are not subject to the legal order of the European Union as an association of states , see " Areas that do not belong to the EU ".
The counterpart to the federal territory is the federal territory , i.e. an area that belongs to the entire state, but not to one of its constituent states. An example of this is the federal capital district of Washington, DC , or (historically) the realm of Alsace-Lorraine .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Schweitzer : Staatsrecht III. Constitutional law, international law, European law , 8th edition, Heidelberg 2004, p. 211 ff .; Günter Püttner: Verwaltungslehre , 4th edition, Munich 2007, p. 82.