DOMINION STATUS 273
The implications of Dominion Status
- Does it imply sovereign status ?
They have the functions of a sovereign state. But they have not the status of sovereign states.
- Does it imply the right to secede ?
Law Quarterly Review
Vol. VI.
Right of aliens to enter British territory. p. 27
Subject—compulsion of, to leave the Realm p. 388
Citizenship and allegiance
Vol. XVII p. 270
Vol. XVIII p. 49
Law of citizenship in the United States
by
Prentiss Webster
Albany : 1891
Webster
“The distinction between citizens proper, that is, the constituent members of the political sovereignty, and subjects of that sovereignty who are not, therefore, citizens is recognized in the best authorities of the public law”. This distinction is true. The further question of who are and who are not citizens has its difficulties. Accept the definition of citizenship to be the enjoyment of equal rights and privileges at home and equal protection abroad, and consider the question from this standpoint, from which alone it should be treated, for we have no law in the U. S. A. which divides our citizens into classes or makes any difference whatever between them. We then discover the importance that the equal rights of citizens when at home should maintain when abroad, because questions as to citizenship are determined by municipal law in subordination to the law of Nations. Therefore, the value of citizenship should not be underestimated.”