Where a person has no practical knowledge of alternative political memberships and no moment of reflective choice, continued presence expresses no propositional attitude toward political authority.

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continued presence(the statement argues this alone doesn't prove someone truly accepts the government's authority): The act of remaining in or staying within a political community or territory.
knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.): Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.
political authority(Characterized in order to show that political authority conflicts with natural freedom): A relation involving issuing commands and requiring others to follow those commands, thereby subordinating one person to another
practical knowledge(Kant's account of how we can know the reality of freedom without theoretical proof (Critique of Practical Reason 5:133)): Cognition 'only for practical purposes,' distinguished from theoretical knowledge; grounded in the moral law rather than in experience or reflection on the conditions of experience

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