Internal Government in the United States

Foreign States, Components, and Political Subdivisions in the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976

Internal government components

According to research about Internal Government from the Federal Judicial Center:The term “foreign state” encompasses not only the national government but also internal governmental or administrative units, such as provinces, prefectures and parishes, cantons and counties, governorates, states, autonomous republics or regions, capital districts, territories, dependencies, and possessions. As a matter of international law, such units are a part of the “state” just as Nevada or the District of Columbia is rightly considered part of the United States of America. Such entities may or may not have a separate legal personality or status under their own domestic law, but for purposes of the FSIA they are best considered as integral parts of their parent state as a whole. In Rong v. Liaoning Provincial Government, for example, the defendant (“a sovereign political subdivision of China”) was properly treated as the foreign state for FSIA purposes.

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