Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: Svartalfiar

No, because after the Declaration of Independence, the natural born subjects of the colonies became the natural born citizens of the independent states of the United States of America. The laws of all the colonies and our legal system were and are rooted in English Common Law which became our common law.


114 posted on 08/12/2020 12:47:42 PM PDT by GreenLanternCorps (Hi! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts! (TM) Atsk about franchise opportunities in your area.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 113 | View Replies ]


To: GreenLanternCorps

The Colonists by and large were actually not “natural born subjects” of the British crown.

Rather, most all of them having been born in North America and thus “beyond the realm” of England and Scotland, the Colonists were, in point of fact as well as in law, only “considered as” natural born subjects. In other words, the Colonists of British North America always were, and were moreover bound always to remain, the equivalent of naturalized citizens from the perspective of their British cousins (most all of whom were, of course, full-fledged natural born subjects of the crown, in that they were natives or “naturels” who enjoyed all the additional rights and advantages, but also bore all the additional responsiblities, that went along with being who they were, rather than merely being “considered as” natural born subjects).


119 posted on 08/12/2020 3:38:15 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 114 | View Replies ]

To: GreenLanternCorps
No, because after the Declaration of Independence, the natural born subjects of the colonies became the natural born citizens of the independent states of the United States of America. The laws of all the colonies and our legal system were and are rooted in English Common Law which became our common law.

English Common Law guided our lawmaking, but it did not just become our law.
And the residents of the colonies did NOT become natural-born citizens of these US automatically, in fact, they did not at all. If they did, why would the Constitution need to explicitly separate them from natural born citizens? Clearly, there is a difference there.

No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President;
134 posted on 08/12/2020 8:47:58 PM PDT by Svartalfiar
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 114 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson