HSRP-633
Every citizen is a subject; not every subject is a citizen
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1. Header
2. The claim, in full
Every citizen is a subject; not every subject is a citizen
Cited on: /sovereign-citizens. Entered 2026-10-18 by the SOVEREIGN CITIZENS block, tag NEW-SC20 (brief item H20). THE PAGE'S OWN GRADE LINE READS: "ESTABLISHED". ESTABLISHED.
3. What it rests on
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Bodin (Knolles), p. 48: "But euerie subiect is not a Citisen, as we have said of a slaue; and may also so say of a stranger" [SRC-1135]
Sources: SRC-1135 -
Bodin (Tooley): "We can say then that every citizen is a subject since his liberty is limited by the sovereign power to which he owes obedience. We cannot say that every subject is a citizen." [SRC-1194]
Sources: SRC-1194 -
Pufendorf, II.6.13: "though subject just so long to its authority, they are still not regarded as citizens" [SRC-212]
Sources: SRC-212
No confidence intervals are recorded for any figure in this block.
4. Sources
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SRC-1135 · PRIORITY · The Six Bookes of a Commonweale — Bodin, Jean, trans. Richard Knolles (1606)
Pinpoint: not recorded · Access: Access status not recordedEntered 2026-10-18 by the SOVEREIGN CITIZENS block, from source entry S09. CITATION as the block gives it (S09): Jean Bodin, The Six Bookes of a Commonweale, trans. Richard Knolles (London: G. Bishop, 1606), I.6 and I.8. I.6: READ AT: https://fgh.perseids.org/read/pdlpsci/bodin/livrep/perseus-eng1/1.6 ; https://cts.perseids.org/read/pdlpsci/bodin/livrep/perseus-eng1/1.8 SCOPE PAGE; PRIMARY. OCR transcription (Perseids). Page numbers are inferred from printed page markers and may be off by one; the "maketh the citisen" passage is at p. 68 in the classical-texts pass and p. 64 in the canon pass. The u/v forms have to be checked against a facsimile. Not yet verified.
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SRC-1194 · PRIORITY · Six Books of the Commonwealth — Bodin, Jean, abridged and trans. M. J. Tooley (1955)
Pinpoint: not recorded · Access: Access status not recordedEntered 2026-10-18 by the SOVEREIGN CITIZENS block, from source entry S79. CITATION as the block gives it (S79): Jean Bodin, Six Books of the Commonwealth, abridged and trans. M. J. Tooley (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1955), I.6 and I.8. READ AT: https://constitution.org/2-Authors/bodin/bodin_1.htm SCOPE H-ONLY; PRIMARY. Abridged translation; OCR transcription with no page numbers. The publisher comes from general knowledge in the notes; the page shows only "[Published 1955. No copyright asserted.]".
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SRC-212 · PRIORITY · On the Duty of Man and Citizen — Samuel Pufendorf (1673)
Pinpoint: not recorded · Access: Access status not recordedSOVEREIGN CITIZENS block, 2026-10-18: S33 cites this record (Pufendorf, On the Duty of Man and Citizen; SRC-213 is De Jure Naturae, a different work). PINPOINTS from this block, added by S33-AMEND: bk. II ch. 9 §4 and ch. 12 §§8-9, read on constitution.org - "To the civil laws, in so far as they do not openly conflict with the divine law, the citizens owe obedience". The constitution.org page prints "ifs" for "its" in II.9.4, outside the quoted words.
5. Counter-evidence
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None found.
Source: none linked in the register
6. Why this grade
ESTABLISHED
The register defines ESTABLISHED as: Supported directly by primary texts or published findings.
7. Correction history
No correction events are recorded. The entry's status is ACTIVE: no later entry amends, supersedes or withdraws it.
8. Related observations
No related observations are linked in the register.
9. Where this appears on the site
Content pages that cite this observation inline:
- Sovereign Citizens“Every citizen is a subject; not every subject is a citizen — ESTABLISHED”
Pages citing a source this observation rests on: /sovereign-citizens.
10. Open questions
Not yet recorded for this observation.
11. Machine block
The register record this page was generated from, with the derived fields added:
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}Generated from hsrp-research-notes.json (register generated 2026-11-08). Nothing on this page is written by hand. 9 fields not yet recorded.