Abstract
The development of self-determination to its present status as a preeminent right of national peoples has been accomplished over a period of almost two centuries. The thirteen British colonies along the Atlantic seaboard of the North American continent achieved self-determination through revolution and became the United States of America. The subsequent Latin American revolutions against European colonialism under the leadership of Simon Bolivar are further historical examples of the exercise of self-determination when there was no legal authority for it. On 11 February 1918, President Woodrow Wilson delivered an address concerning the peace objectives of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress. In it he spelled out the juridical concept of self-determination of peoples with particularity:
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