ABSTRACT
It has become a universal principle that states rule over territories (including the air above and the ground below them). But several cracks exist in the territorial model, and it is an important question of political morality whether such cracks are to be regretted, and repaired, or instead need to be welcomed, and enlarged. This chapter does two things: (1) it proposes a concept of territoriality and its alternative – personality; and (2) normatively, it argues that it is desirable to decentralise many competences in the domain of ‘essentially personal matters’ to non-territorial jurisdictional units.
