[Springfield Reformer]

And you should know as well as I do that British common law as described by Blackstone did allow for the occasional natural born “subject” as one born to an established British subject living abroad. So retreat to British common law is no defense against jus sanguinis.

Peace,

SR

[Bob434]

would you pelase address post 152 for me as you and I have spoken of this subject about the Bellei case before and you can certainly explain it much better than I?

[RC one]

It is well established by Blackstone and subsequent US legal scholars (Horace Binney namely)that these were narrowly confined exceptions to the law to accommodate children caught up in the war of the three kingdoms and the subsequent English Restoration but the law remained the law. The exceptions did not overturn the law.

The notion that there is any common law principle to naturalize the children born in foreign countries, of native-born American father and mother, father or mother, must be discarded. There is not, and never was, any such common law principle.

Horace Binney on Alienigenae, 14, 20; 2 Amer.Law Reg.199, 203 (speaking specifically of the aforementioned exceptions)