de Vattel: Of the Protection Sought by a Nation, and its Voluntary Submission to a Foreign Power

The Law of Nations or the Principles of Natural Law (1758)Emmerich de Vattel

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Of the Protection Sought by a Nation, and its Voluntary Submission to a Foreign Power§ 192. Protection.§ 193. Voluntary submission of one nation to another.§ 194. Several kinds of submission.§ 195. Right of the citizens when the nation submits to a foreign power.§ 196. These compacts annulled by the failure of protection.§ 197. Or by the infidelity of the party protected.§ 198. And by the encroachments of the protector.§ 199. How the right of the nation protected is lost by its silence.
   1. Haque populum Campanum, urbemque Capuam, agros, delubra deum, divina himanaque omnia, in vestram, patres conscripti, populique Romani ditionem dedimus. LIVY, book vii. c. 31.
   2. We speak here of a nation that has rendered itself subject to another, and not of one that has incorporated itself with another state, so as to constitute a part of it. The latter stands in the same predicament with all the other citizens. Of this case we shall treat in the following chapter.
   3. See The History of Switzerland. The United Provinces, having been obliged to rely wholly on their own efforts in defending themselves against Spain, would no longer acknowledge any dependence on the empire from which they had received no assistance. GROTIUS, Hist. of the Troubles in the Low Countries, b. xvi. p. 627.