Gen. Info - Article 1: The National Territory of the Philippines

[Music] how do you ever ask yourself how big to Philippines is or what are the boundaries of the Philippines well if you haven't asked those questions this is your lucky day Vegas today I'm going to discuss the first article of the Philippine Constitution which is the national territory but before I formally start our lesson let me first give you a Fanta did you know that the definition of the national territory is usually not found in the constitution of other countries they were not aware of this fact take note of this the framers of our constitution strongly believe that we must know our territory to avoid territorial disputes with other country that serve I'm back for this episode now let's discuss the national territory it comprises of the following Brit the Philippine Archipelago second all other territories over which the Philippines a sovereign or jurisdiction this includes any territory that possibly belong or mine in the future belong to the fifth and last are the internal knowledge together understand this part let's break it down starting from the three components of the national territory first is what we call that there just really needs this refers to the land whether agricultural lands for in certain berlin's mineral lands and national forests under the sovereignty or jurisdiction of the Philippines second the flow builder needs this refers to the internal and external waters under the sovereignty for jurisdiction of the third and last is the aerial demean disturbers to the airspace above the land and water excluding the Odyssey to make it easier for us to remember this point let's take note of this code DF a B stands for terrestrial today L force local domain and a for aerial today against it could it t f king next are the other areas included in the Philippine Archipelago first is the territorial state this is the twelve nautical mile zone from the low-water mark from the steep second the seabed or the bottom of the sea third this soft soil or everything beneath the surface soil including the mineral and the natural resources port the insular shops are the parts of the eyelids with remain underwater and last are the other submarine area or all other areas under the territorial sea to make it easier for us to remember this line let's follow this going t s-s-i o B stands for territorial cs4 seabed another s4 subsoil I for initial our shelves and over other submarine here I get a good as DSS I Oh now let's move on to the internal waters of Sufism due to the fastness of the filter at the archaeologic nature of the conditions it did not follow the traditional basis of determining the country's founder the Philippines together with Indonesia and other archaeologic countries introduced the idea of party politics offering on the International Conference on the log to understand this doctrine let's take a look at the Philippines the Philippines is an archipelago this means that it's a shame or group of islands according to this archaeological tree the Philippine archipelago it's considered as one integrated instead of being divided into 7,107 islands the outermost of the archipelago is connected with straight baseline and all the water is inside the base slides are considered as internal waters of the film to make it easier for us to understand the internal waters let's remember it is going a-b-c eye or obstacle this means that the waters are going between and connecting the islands of the archipelago regardless of their breath and dimensions for part of the internal waters of the Philippines since we are on the topic of the national territory let's talk about the territorial disputes specifically regarding the South China Sea territorial dispute or for us it's the West Philippine Sea do we have the right to stop China from building man-made island and from fishing in our area to answer discussion let's press this cos on clothes on cloths is an acronym for the United Nations Convention on the law of the sea the law of the sea was develop from the struggle between co-sourcing which wanted to expand your control over the maritime area as just enter their coastline on cloth is the constitution for the world ocean temple under the on laws we have different imaginary lines or maritime zones the determine of countries maritime territory let's discuss these maritime zones one by white from the seizure of the Philippines we measure 12 nautical miles the determine its territorial waters this is the area where the Philippines has sovereignty this means that we have a complete ownership of these territorial waters we are our property so we are allowed to do anything with them in the sense passage through these territorial waters it's also allowed this means that foreign vessels can enter as long as they will be pain from engaging in prohibited activities such as clapping testing spying smuggling serious pollution fishing or scientific research from the edge of the territorial sea we measure 24 nautical miles to do they mean they can take you inside in this zone the Philippines may exercise control to prevent unpunished infringement of its custom fiscal immigration or sanitary laws and regulation within its territorial sea extending up to 200 nautical miles it's what we called the exclusive economic zone also known as deep in this zone ships and submarines from other country can freely travel without any permission however this is under the condition that they are just passing by I'm not taking any resources under Don gloss the Philippines has no sovereignty only has sovereign rights over Italy what do we mean by this this simply means that we don't entirely follow the easy we only have sovereign rights the sovereign rights allow the Philippines to control all the economic resources within its exclusive economic zone including fishing mining and managing resources according to on cost we can share our easy with other states in two conditions first foreign states must abide the loss of the state allowing absence for each species second there must be an abundant amount of the sauce let's go back to the question earlier do we have the right to stop China from building man-made islands and from fishing in our areas of course the answer is a big yes first China didn't have an agreement with the Philippines when they build the man-made islands second there are 105 million Filipinos and the fish in this area is not enough to feed the whole country and lastly our Constitution clearly states that the exclusive economic zone is exclusively for Filipinos home even if we don't have sovereignty over the entire piece we have every right to defend a sovereign right it means we can still prohibit the Chinese from fishing and our easy especially that they already have violated our rights now let's review the important concepts for this episode first the national territory second the three components of the national territory third the other areas included in the Philippine Archipelago fourth the internal waters of the Philippines if the archaeologic Dolphy six are the maritime zone that ends our lesson and the national territory here is a preview of our next lesson we'll learn about the Declaration of Principles and state policy thank you for learning with us and see you in the next