One of the things the pre-Westphalian world had that we don’t is de facto recognition of the universal human right to global mobility. Transport was primitive and it was a bloody and violent world with institutions like serfdom, but at least they didn’t need passports and visas
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You have to be adrift in the oceans today to have legitimacy for your mere existence without paperwork. The only “public” spaces for being simply human are oceanic. Much as I like the aquatic ape hypothesis, that’s not an ideal condition.
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Why are you trying to reason with them?
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I would rather say (if I really have to) that the state has a right to derogate - on special occasions - from the otherwise universal freedom of movement
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