that’s interesting
i wonder when US bases and embassies lost their ‘US soil’ designation
“i wonder when US bases and embassies lost their ‘US soil’ designation”
They didn’t with respect to the Law of Nations provisions for the right of embassy, but there are some strict limitations to those rights of embassy being considered as the sovereign soil of the guest embassy. Among those limitations include a sovereign dominion over certain persons, especially those persons not having diplomatic immunity, and limitations upon the usage of their sovereign territory by an embassy. Military installations and their associated hospitals are particularly not entitled to diplomatic immunity, but in many cases are subject to a status of forces agreement between the host nation and the United States. A status of forces agreement can provide for a reservation of jurisdiction for some subject matter, but not for the determination of the sovereign powers of determining citizenship.
It must always be remembered that when a law talks about a subject A must be “considered as” subject B, it must be ‘considered as” because it actually is not and a special provision of a manmade, artificial, and unnatural law is required to cause the subject to be “considered as” and treated as if it actually was so despite not being so.