Editing Passport (section)

=== Etymology and origin ===
[[Etymology|Etymological]] sources{{Such as?|date=August 2024}} show that the term "passport" may derive from a document required by some medieval Italian states in order for an individual to pass through the physical harbor (Italian ''passa porto'', "to pass the harbor") or gate (Italian ''passa porte'', "to pass the gates") of a walled city or jurisdiction.<ref>{{cite book |author=George William Lemon |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RHwCAAAAQAAJ |title=English etymology; or, A derivative dictionary of the English language |year=1783 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=RHwCAAAAQAAJ&pg=PT397 397]}} said that ''passport'' may signify either a permission to pass through a ''portus'' or gate, but noted that an earlier work had contained information that a traveling warrant, a permission or license to pass through the whole dominions of any prince, was originally called a ''pass par tout''.</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=James Donald |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=agA_AAAAcAAJ |title=Chamber's etymological dictionary of the English language |publisher=W. and R. Chambers |year=1867 |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=agA_AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA366 366] |quote=passport, pass'pōrt, ''n.'' orig. permission ''to pass'' out of ''port'' or through the gates; a written warrant granting permission to travel.}}</ref> Such documents were issued by local authorities to foreign travellers—as opposed to local citizens, as is the modern practice—and generally contained a list of towns and cities the document holder was permitted to enter or pass through. On the whole, documents were not required for travel to seaports, which were considered [[Free trade zone|open trading points]], but documents were required to pass harbor controls and travel inland from seaports.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Lopez |first1=Robert Sebationo |title=Medieval Trade in the Mediterranean World: Illustrative Documents |last2=W. Raymond |first2=Irving |publisher=Columbia University Press |year=2001 |isbn=9780231123563 |pages=36–39}}</ref> The transition from private to state control over movement was an essential aspect of the transition from [[feudalism]] to [[capitalism]]. Communal obligations to provide [[poor relief]] were an important source of the desire for controls on movement.<ref name=":1" /><sup>:10</sup>