Every nation has this right to sovereignty. Sovereignty is legitimacy. A nation’s legitimacy is necessary to enact and enforce laws, which represent the rights of a country’s citizenry. If a country has no borders, it has no sovereignty. If it has no sovereignty, it has no legitimacy. If a country has no legitimacy, it has no authority to create laws. If it has no laws, chaos ensues, rights are lost, and citizenship means nothing. A country without any meaningful citizenship isn’t a country at all.
"Sovereignty is legitimacy." And that's why, when I travel to another country, I hold myself to their standards and rules. That's why, if I entered another country illegally, it wouldn't surprise me to be detained or worse (not that I would do that, just for argument's sake). My ever-present question is, why do so many Americans expect the U.S. to be any different? Why have we sacrificed our legitimacy?
