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6. C Offences against the external Security of the State.

commonly apt to be united. Accordingly a state is looked upon as being
more responsible for what passes within its own dominions
than for what passes any where else.

That which is desined from birth the most permanent. This alone constitutes a man a member of the State. This jurisdiction however, though the most coercive
so long as it subsists, is not the most permanent. The most
permanent is that which is constituted by birth. This is
evidently perpetual: and this alone is commonly understood
to constitute the person subject to it, a member of the
state. With regard to any other state than that within
the dominions of which he was born, a man may be spoken
of as a subject, but he is hardly looked upon as a member
of it unless by his own consent he be constituted such by
an express act of the state. Such an Act is called an Act of
Naturalization.

These two alone constitute a man a Subject These two are the only species of jurisdiction that
are commonly understood to constitute a man a subject of
the state by which they are possessed. In no other case
than that of birth is jurisdiction by reason of affection to a
place, nor in any case jurisdiction by reason of possessions,
or jurisdiction by reason of religion understood to constitute
a man a subject. This however is but matter of words; for it




Identifier: | JB/072/048/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 72.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

not numbered

Box

072

Main Headings

penal code

Folio number

048

Info in main headings field

offences against the external security of the state

Image

002

Titles

Category

copy/fair copy sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f5 / f6 / f7 / f8

Penner

Watermarks

[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] pro patria [with motif]]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

23665

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