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To: DiogenesLamp
Congress cannot make "natural citizens." Those are made by nature.

Sorry, doesn't make any sense.

The idea of citizenship, and who qualifies, is a human invention, not handed down by God written on stone tablets.

What you are saying is that given certain assumptions common to our society, certain people have a natural right to citizenship. Which is true. But those assumptions themselves are human inventions, not natural laws.

The Romans would have agreed with you. Except they believed some men were "natural born slaves." Law of Nature.

156 posted on 08/28/2013 12:31:03 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan
The idea of citizenship, and who qualifies, is a human invention, not handed down by God written on stone tablets.

It's an extension of tribes, and I think God did have something to say about that.

What you are saying is that given certain assumptions common to our society, certain people have a natural right to citizenship. Which is true. But those assumptions themselves are human inventions, not natural laws.

They are observations noted by the writers on Natural Law, whom the Delegates and and Ratifying legislators mention by name. Grotius, Puffendorf, Vattel, Wolf, Locke, Bynkershoek, Barbeyrac, Hobbes, etc.

The Romans would have agreed with you. Except they believed some men were "natural born slaves." Law of Nature.

Again, these were not opinions informed by the enlightenment, and so therefore aren't germane to this discussion.

201 posted on 08/28/2013 4:46:34 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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