Self-Determination, Territory, and the Continuity of Entitlement

Let us begin with the task of describing the holders of the right to self-determination. Can we say that national minorities represent a particular type of group that has a moral right to self-determination  

Avishai Margalit and Joseph Raz call a group relevant to the determination of the moral entitlement to self-government an encompassing group. The characteristics of the group that are relevant to a case for self-government and, ulti- 

1 Multinational States and Moral Theories of International Legal Doctrine 

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