# Contested concept: sovereignty

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- **Contestedness**: criterion
- **Diagnosis**: Sovereignty appears as a breachable-and-excusable rule rather than as effective control; the opposing text uses the second sense.
- **Canonical**: `/concept/sovereignty` (data: `/concept/sovereignty.json`)

## Senses in use
- **A rule of international law whose incidental breach can be excused by a circumstance precluding wrongfulness** — used in 2 claim(s)

## Claims using this term
- [Israel's intrusion within Palestinian territory and the violation of its sovereignty is excused by self-defence as a circumstance precludin…](/claim/claim_91b427420b78.md) _(sense: A rule of international law whose incidental breach can be excused by a circumstance precluding wrongfulness)_
- [Because self-defence covers non-State armed attacks even on the territory of third States, Article 21 consequently applies to the resulting…](/claim/claim_ad6be786d9ca.md) _(sense: A rule of international law whose incidental breach can be excused by a circumstance precluding wrongfulness)_