they feared the influenced of a Catholic monarch
British law made it a punishable crime to possess salt not bought from the English factories.
While the Indians were ruled by the British, they were not allowed to posses salt any other than the one produced and procured by the English. The indians were forbidden by law to not own such or process their own salt. People who did this illegally were caught and beaten down for breaking this law.
The idea of active citizenship
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China didn't have anything to do with citizenship, cities like Athens and Sparta had laws about citizenship and what a citizen could do and what a non-citizen could and couldn't do. China didn't have anything like that at the time/\.
So the new nation doesn't collapse on its-self <span />
