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"Your definition" in the meaning of "the definition you cite".

If you read the page you linked closely (and remove all the US specific stuff) you see that it really only talks about of enforcement not lawmaking. Your own addition

> Jurisdiction is what allows the government to make a law in the first place

can nowhere be found on the page you linked.

There are a lot of laws in the books everywhere in the world that are usually not enforced because you can't. Germany (as well as many other countries) has laws regarding human trafficking that apply to anyone everywhere in the world. Would you argue that this is not a law? If that's the case we can agree to disagree.




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