[RegulatorCountry]

Use of the term citizen in the sense you mean developed during the French Revolution. Vattel had been dead for a long time by then.

Where did the Statue of Liberty come from and why, Sherman Logan?

[Sherman Logan]

Okay, I’ll bite.

The French people raised the money for the statue itself through private donations. It was called “Liberty Enlightening the World.” The Emma Lazarus poem has completely changed the meaning of the statue for most people from the original intent.

What’s your point?

I fail to see how the SOL of 1876 has much relevance to the 1780s.