[bvw]

well used term of English common law that goes back more than 300 years prior to the Constitution

What's your cite?

[syc1959]

Again, proving you wrong.

The Origin of Government and Laws in Connecticut
JESSE ROOT, 1798

These rights and liberties are our own, not holden by the gift of a despot. Our government and our rulers are from amongst ourselves; chosen by the free, uninfluenced suffrages of enlightened freemen; not to oppress and devour, but to protect, feed, and bless the people, with the benign and energetic influence of their power (as ministers of God for good to them). This shows the ignorance of those who are clamorous for a new constitution, and the mistake of those who suppose that the rules of the Common Law of England are the common law of Connecticut, until altered by a statute.

QUOTE: This shows the ignorance of those who are clamorous for a new constitution, and the mistake of those who suppose that the rules of the Common Law of England are the common law of Connecticut, until altered by a statute.

Why would the very people that won their freedom from Britain, use their law as the basis of a new country.

[EnderWiggins]

"What's your cite?"

Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England

Complete Text here: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/blackstone.asp

Also... read the comprehensive historical review in the Supreme Court Case of Wong Kim Ark here:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0169_0649_ZO.html