"Les citoyens sont les membres de la societe civile : lies a cette societe par certains devoirs et soumis a son autorite, ils participent avec egalite a ses avantages."
— Emer de Vattel

January 1, 1970

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Alternate: The citizens are the members of the civil society, bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority; they equally participate in its advantages. The natives or natural-born citizens are those born in the country of parents who are citizens. .. if he be born there of a foreigner, it will be only the place of his birth, and not his country — page 176 of English translation published in 1883, — while the bottom-left marks it as page 176, it is listed as page 101 on t