To prevent any participation from any United States citizen (be it government or regular civilians) in the wars that pitted the "belligerent powers" of Britain, Sardinia, Prussia, Austria, and the Netherlands against revolutionary France, Washington declared that the country should be passive and neutral to such muddles of chaos. He warns the American people that any citizens who decides to engage in hostilities with any of the European nations at war will lose their protection of the United States, and will be prosecuted. They will become liable to forfeit and punishment by the law of nations.
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