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Analyzing legal cases from U.S. and Philippine courts, I show how Philippine courts disentangled administrative from territorial sovereignty in legal disputes over the former U.S. Subic Bay Naval Base, Philippines and Subic Bay Freeport Zone, Philippines. By territorial sovereignty, I refer to power and authority by a government or organization that extends throughout a geographic territory, it is geographically bound. Whereas administrative sovereignty means the authority and power by a government or organization that extends over people; it is bound to citizens and its reach extends beyond the geographic boundaries it covers. This paper refines our knowledge of sovereignty by arguing that multiple types of state sovereignty exist.