To: Mr Rogers
Something in the syllabus is not automatically a ruling.Why do you qualify your statement with "automatically"?
For example, Minor did not rule that The word citizen is often used to convey the idea of membership in a nation.
And yet what do we find in the full decision?
For convenience it has been found necessary to give a name to this membership. The object is to designate by a title the person and the relation he bears to the nation. For this purpose the words 'subject,' 'inhabitant,' and 'citizen' have been used, and the choice between them is sometimes made to depend upon the form of the government. Citizen is now more commonly employed, however, and as it has been considered better suited to the description of one living under a republican government, it was adopted by nearly all of the States upon their separation from Great Britain, and was afterwards adopted in the Articles of Confederation and in the Constitution of the United States. When used in this sense it is understood as conveying the idea of membership of a nation, and nothing more.
That's what the syllabus says but only in fewer words, right?
1. The word "citizen " is often used to convey the idea of membership in a nation.
191 posted on
02/19/2012 5:31:24 PM PST by
philman_36
(Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
To: All
192 posted on
02/19/2012 5:33:17 PM PST by
philman_36
(Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
To: Mr Rogers
So, do you think I can find something in the decision that will substantiate citizen parents just like in the syllabus but only in a shorter manner?
193 posted on
02/19/2012 5:38:22 PM PST by
philman_36
(Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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