Stewardship of Wintergen: Difference between revisions

For the purposes of constitutional law, Wintergen is a ''sui iuris'' federal subject that predates the modern classifications of state/chartered colony, territory, federal district, dependency, insular area, and governorate. It is ''external'' to the federacy (subject to its sovereignty and jurisdiction but not an integral ''part'' of it like a state or territory), but due to complications arising from the [[legal continuity between the Coscivian Empire and Kiravian Federacy]] and the wording of earlier Kiravian legislation regarding the island, cannot be merged, divided, ceded, or abolished by the federal government like other external territories.

For judicial purposes, Wintergen remains within the jurisdiction of the Koskenkorva Court Sector and the First Appellate Circuit, just as it did before the Burgundian annexation. Its two internal courts still exist on paper, but have not sat since 1817, six years before the island's annexation.