There is another more promising way to justify the authority of international law on sovereign States, but also on their populations and on IOs that is in line with the modern account of sovereign autonomy proposed so far. The first part of the 20 th century is usually regarded as the time of conception of modern international law and of the so-called law of international cooperation ( Co-operation, International Law of). The League of Nations was created in 1919 and new fields fell into the material scope of international law. First attempts to secure the prohibition of the use of force and to consolidate duties of peaceful dispute settlement were made, albeit not always successfully. The Assent Law of the First People: Principles of an Effective Legal System in Aboriginal Communities', Dr Djiniyini Gondarra OAM and Richard Trudgen, 22/2/2011, in Galiwin'ku Constitution Consultation Meeting, submission no 3526

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Reverend Dr Djiniyini Goṉḏarra OAM, Senior Elder Dhurili Clan Nation and Chairman of Arnhem Land Progress Aboriginal Corporation, explains how law relates to sovereignty (Madayin = Yolngu law system): where sovereign entities ally, trade, make war, and make peace. 2. The Rise of the Sovereign State: Theory and Practice He had another statement that said the following: “Will you choose to be free to do what you feel like doing at risk of the bondage that comes in the end? Or do you want to subject yourself to the discipline required now to achieve ultimate and lasting freedom?” We believe we have never been conquered and we are not subject to the Australian or British law but still maintain our own sovereignty. We still have our language and practice our Madayin law and as one of the first peoples we assent to the Madayin law not Australian law. Still we want to find a way forward. So, if the Law we have always assented to is not recognised then there can never be a real rule of Law only lawlessness and true justice can never exist for our people and the communities we live in." [5] Sovereignty has been confirmed by Australian courts

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Whereas some authors argue that sovereign rights and duties are correlative, others do not even conceive of sovereignty in terms of rights and duties but in terms of the components of sovereign States’ independence and the corresponding restrictions on others’. Importantly, the existence of sovereignty rights and duties need not imply that sovereignty is reducible to them and to a bundle of rights. Secondly, material and economic interdependence between States has meant increased institutional cooperation at a transnational, international, and supranational level, and the creation of corresponding IOs. The delegation of sovereign competences to IOs is compatible with the sovereignty of Member States and does not turn IOs into sovereign States (see Reparation for Injuries Suffered in the Service of the United Nations [Advisory Opinion]). The original theoretical model of State sovereignty is often attributed to Jean Bodin and his Six Livres de la République published in 1576. This book provides the first coherent theory of State sovereignty, although it is only towards the end of the 17 th century that it was recognized as such in practice. In a period of intense religious conflicts, Bodin describes an authority capable of putting an end to the war: the Republic. It can be difficult to distinguish the two terms. 'Self-determination' is a more loose word for 'sovereignty'. Sometimes, it is used as an alternative, while other times it is used to describe a form of ‘limited sovereignty’ under the sovereign power of someone else. In international law, sovereignty is a more precise term than self-determination.Interestingly, many of those new international limitations to internal sovereignty are not consent-based, but stem from customary norms or general principles. This may be explained by the fact that these norms can be understood as the reflection of the minimal common denominator to the practice of all democratic sovereign States constituting the international community and are produced as a result by accretion of the gradual recognition of those norms at the domestic level by modern democracies. Once internationalized, those norms may as a result work as a legitimate limit on the autonomy of those States to contextualize and hence to flesh out those minimal international standards in their respective jurisdictions, thereby contributing to the development of the international standards themselves bottom-up.