Sentences with phrase «submerged state acts»
One of the corollaries of Mettler's book is that the existence of the submerged state acts as a systematic barrier to proper recognition of government intervention.
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Pursuant to the Submerged Lands Act of 1953, 43 U.S.C. § 1301 et seq., individual U.S. states have rights to natural resources found within 3 nautical miles of the coast (BOEM 2017a).
Confirming the principle in the Seas and Submerged Lands case [69] that the «acquisition of territory by a sovereign state for the first time is an act of state which can not be challenged, controlled or interfered with by the Courts of that state», [70] Justice Brennan in Mabo identified the extent of the court's power as merely «determining the consequences of an acquisition [of sovereignty] under municipal law».
He found that the High Court's apparent endorsement of that case in the Sea and Submerged Lands Act case (59) was really only an acknowledgement of the state of the law at the time of Federation in 1901.