Self-determination benefits

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. 

In this chapter, I have considered how to justify the group moral entitlement to self-determination. In Chapters 5 and 6,1 discuss the set of advantages allowable under the universal right to self-determination as well as pragmatic benefits of self-determination and how to achieve them legitimately without privileging the interests of one group over those of others within the same territory. I explain why majorities may be motivated to comply if a proposal like mine is implemented in Chapter 5 and consider why equality within a state is still self-determination in Chapter 6. 

There are several questions that need to be answered to demonstrate that my approach to federalism does not run into a different set of problems. In brief, they involve the possibility of endless and destabilizing division along national lines within a state, the treatment of groups that are not territorially concentrated, the justiflcation for keeping state boundaries intact while changing the substate units boundaries, the benefits of the substate type of self-determination, and the issue of the allocation of territory. I will answer these questions in the order in which I have listed them. 

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