foreign nation

foreign nation
A political union or community of people under a sovereignty other than that of the United States. A nation is foreign to another nation, that is, it is a foreign nation with reference to that nation, unless the two nations owe a common allegiance; so that the term is applicable by either nation to the other. Cherokee Nation v Georgia (US) 5 Pet 1, 8 L Ed 25.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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