Here is accurate information regarding the history of citizenship and international law. Citizenship has been recognized since the time of the Greek city states and the Roman empire. Ever since conquerors have granted citizenship to the people living in their conquered territories. International Law was first codified in 1840s. Jeremy Bentham is responsible for that term. An 1861 statement of this law with specific regard to citizenship states the following:
QUOTE § 11. It may be laid down as a general rule, that the inhabitants of a conquered territory who remain in it, become citizens of the new state; for justice would seem to require that the rights of citizenship should be given them in return for their allegiance. But this general rule of justice must yield to the conditions upon which the conquered are incorporated into the new state, and to the peculiar character of the institutions and municipal laws of the conqueror. It could not reasonably be expected that the conquering state would modify or change its laws and political institutions by the mere act of incorporating into it the inhabitants of a conquered territory. The inhabitants so incorporated, therefore, may, or may not, acquire all the rights of citizens of the new government, according to its constitution and laws. It may, and sometimes does, happen, that a certain class of the citizens of the conquered territory are, by the laws of the new state, precluded from ever acquiring the full political rights of citizenship. UNQUOTE Those who want a pdf copy of the book giving the above statement are free to write to me privately to request it. Cheers, Santosh On Friday, December 20, 2013 8:55 PM, Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão <[email protected]> wrote: Hide message history > COMMENT: > > May I ask > Shri. Helekar if there was any International Law in the year 1510 or 1543 or > 1788 for there to be any legal obligations for a decision by the people on > citizenship? > > Was there > any term “citizenship” in that era? > > Was there > any global communication in that era? If not, when did it start? And when was > “Citizen’s > Rights” established? > > May we know > how accurate is this “accurate” comment?Or is it accurate that you are trying > to > state that the Indians in the 20th century were as retarded as the people of > the > 16th century? > > Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão. >
