Declaration of Independence

A Declaration of Independence is a document or an act by the inhabitants of a far from another state -dominated area , in the past usually also a colony , its political independence proclaim.

procedure

The formal declaration of independence is not always immediately followed by the actual independence of the country. On the one hand, there is often resistance from the (previous) colonial power or the (old) state, from which the de facto regime wants to split off against its will ; on the other hand, the group declaring state independence does not necessarily have the support of the majority of the population. Many declarations of independence therefore led to wars of independence , but some remained without consequences.

Examples

• Declaration of Arbroath (Scotland, 1320; thus the oldest known declaration of independence)
• Plakkaat van Verlatinghe (Netherlands, 1581)
• United States Declaration of Independence (1776)
• New Zealand Declaration of Independence (1835)
• Declaration of Independence of Liberia (1847)
• Easter Proclamation (Ireland, 1916)
• Finnish Declaration of Independence (1917)
• Azerbaijani Declaration of Independence (1918)
• Czechoslovak Declaration of Independence (1918)
• Austrian Declaration of Independence (1945)
• Indonesian Declaration of Independence (1945)
• Israeli Declaration of Independence (1948)
• Palestinian Declaration of Independence (1988)
• Slovenian declaration of independence (1991)
• Macedonian Declaration of Independence (1991)
• Croatian declaration of independence (1991)
• Declaration of Independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992)
• Montenegrin declaration of independence (2006)
• Kosovar Declaration of Independence (2008)
• South Sudanese Declaration of Independence (2011)
• Catalan Declaration of Independence (2017; thus the latest known declaration of independence)

See also

• Declaration of independence from Mecklenburg (1775; existence disputed)
• Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace (1996; article on the feasibility and legitimacy of state control of the Internet)

Web links

Wiktionary: Declaration of Independence  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

1. ^ See Theodor Schweisfurth , Völkerrecht , UTB 8339 / Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2006, chap. 1 § 7 Rn. 119 (p. 33), chap. 9 § 4 Rn. 186 (p. 328).