The Impact of Aviation on the Conception of Territorial Sovereignty

The notion of territory may be said to have different aspects. Considered from the standpoint of the concrete experience of the human race from the time when its advanced communities changed their habitual life from the migratory to the sedentary career marked by their permanent settlement upon a definite space of land--the members of each community being bound together by their being attached to a common piece of land--the notion is an empirical conception.