Every community governed by laws and customs uses partly its own law, partly laws common to all mankind. The law which a people makes for its own government belongs exclusively to that state. . . . Bu

Every community governed by laws and customs uses partly its own law, partly laws common to all mankind. The law which a people makes for its own government belongs exclusively to that state. . . . But the law which natural reason appoints for all mankind obtains equally among all nations, because all nations make use of it. What does this passage imply about the importance of laws within individual states?