The British principle, on the contrary, was that British subjects could never thus expatriate themselves, and that, if they did so, the British Government could seize them wherever found, and by force compel them to serve the Empire in any manner the Government chose to direct.
Beveridge contrasts American and British views on expatriation and citizenship.
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The first duties of a good citizen--Reverence for the Laws and Respect for the Magistracy.
Indeed, he thought them only "an experiment on the American mind to see how far it will bear an avowed violation of the constitution.
Thus were the ideas of Nationality and localism in America brought into sharper conflict by the mob and guillotine in France.
Heart-breaking and pitiful was the aspect of these soldiers of liberty.
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