Bargaining with the State from AfarIn the early 1990s, when organizations representing the 2. 6 million U. S. nationals living abroad appealed to Congress for their own non voting representative, the response of one Senator was to dismiss these "moans of the mink swathed Americans abroad." However, the image of a life of luxury abroad is usually a harsher reality complicated by income taxes, military duty, and legal jurisdiction. What exactly is the obligation of a state toward