Colonial charters

Francis Newton Thorpe, The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the States, Territories, and Colonies (Washington Government Printing Office, 1909), vol. VII, p. 3802 vol. V, p. 2753 vol. VI, p. 3211. 

A second but very important point is the applicability. Principle IV defines a colony and establishes the so-called salt-water rule. A colonial power must report on a territory that is geographically separate from the administering country. The territory must also be ethnically and/or culturally distinct. This rule is taken to establish that giving away an overseas territory does not threaten the territorial integrity of the colonial power. This is important in relation to minorities. If they were given any kind of external self-determination, most cases would threaten the territorial integrity which in turn would be against the spirit of the UN Charter. 

The paragraph on the subjection of peoples to alien subjugation, domination and exploitation that constitutes a violation of the principle of self-determination has to be understood in a wider context than the colonial cmitext. Understanding the FRD to be a concretization of the UN Charter, a document that was formed by the experiences of World War 11 and its miseries, would be cOTitraiy to its very aims to leave internally subjugated, dominated and exploited peoples completely defenceless towards their state. 

The Difference Principle The Friendly Relations Declaration states that self-determination is a way of bringing a speedy end to colonialism. This is clearly in favour of the peoples of the colonial entity that receives a free choice regarding its political status and its economic, social and cultural development. It is also explicitly stated in the preamble and the principle on self-determination that alien subjugation, domination and exploitation are violations of self-determination, fundamental human rights and contrary to the UN Charter. Without offering unconditional unlimited rights, the Friendly Relations Declaration is concerned with the benefit of the least advantaged. 

See, for example. Chapter 1 see also Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, G.A. Res. 1514, I960 Declaration on Principles of International Law Concerning Friendly Relations and Co-operation Among States in Accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, G.A. Res. 

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