Full Idea
Sovereigns are not obliged to maintain their subjects, though, exceptionally, charity requires them to take particular care of those who cannot support themselves because of some undeserved misfortune.
Gist of Idea
Sovereigns need only maintain subjects who (undeservingly) cannot support themselves
Source
Samuel Pufendorf (On the Duty of Man and Citizen [1673], II.11)
A Reaction
In Anglo-Saxon England lords seem to have fully maintained their followers, perhaps because they owned all the food and housing. Plenty of scope here to debate the meaning of 'cannot' and 'undeserved'!
Book Reference
Pufendorf,Samuel: 'On the Duty of Man and Citizen' [CUP 1991], p.153