Aha, good point which i would regard as coming from a different direction (anchor babies).
again, i only chose the most strict approach, and i was somewhat surprised and a little dismayed by the result.
i could imagine the FFs had no idea that there would be so much illegal migration in the future, and that this particular part of the constitution was to some degree hastily written.
(that is obviously not a solution to the immediate problems at hand...)
One thing that England has separating itself from Europe that the USA does not have to separate itself from Mexico is the English Channel. This in turn might have led England to adopt a more “liberal” attitude towards jus solis based citizenship. I know both this and the NBC issue have been argued to death on FR in the past and so I must admit that here I have many more questions than answers.
YEP!