Page "Political status of Taiwan" Paragraph 30

The Additional Articles of the Constitution of the Republic of China have mentioned " Taiwan Province ," and the now defunct National Assembly passed constitutional amendments that give the people of the " Free Area of the Republic of China ", comprising the territories under its current jurisdiction, the sole right, until reunification, to exercise the sovereignty of the Republic through elections of the President and the entire Legislature as well as through elections to ratify amendments to the ROC constitution.

Also, Chapter I, Article 2 of the ROC constitution states that " The sovereignty of the Republic of China shall reside in the whole body of citizens.

" This suggests that the constitution implicitly admits that the sovereignty of the ROC is limited to the areas that it controls even if there is no constitutional amendment that explicitly spells out the ROC's borders.