Our subscription to a culture, club or university, each with a measure of autonomy, does not impair loyalty to the state. We need not look to some legal text to discover this. Cathy Freeman gave adequate demonstration of a unity in diversity following the 800 metres and her magnificent display of two flags. For this she should rank ahead of Hobbs and Dicey in my view. Peace inn our time is no longer the maintenance of central state power, but the assurance of its just distribution to important sections of the community.
Citizenship can merely confuse the issue.
We may be citizens of a city, of a country or of the world. Our loyalty to one is not in itself disloyalty to any other. Similarly we can identify in several ways without impairment of national unity or engaging in jurisprudential schizophrenia. These and other factors influence our search of a new legal order. Where a question of indigenous land rights is answered solely on an interpretation of English law, the sufficiency of that law may be questioned when the indigenous issue is global.