About as funny as a birther. :) Hey, I don’t like the president’s policies, so instead of fighting him on his policies, I’ll join this ridiculous campaign based on a conspiracy theory that he wasn’t really born in this country. Or, in the alternative, if he was really born here, he’s still not eligible because I found some old treatise that says you have to have two U.S. citizen parents to be natural born, 14th amendment be damned. It doesn’t matter if I’m quoting non-Americans and basically pimping for foreign law to be the basis of our jurisprudence. It also doesn’t matter if the guy I’m quoting died before the Revolutionary War even STARTED and before the U.S. was a blip on the world’s radar. Awesome!
Be it enacted by the General Assembly, that all white persons born within the territory of this commonwealth and all who have resided therein two years next before the passing of this act, and all who shall hereafter migrate into the same; and shall before any court of record give satisfactory proof by their own oath or affirmation, that they intend to reside therein, and moreover shall give assurance of fidelity to the commonwealth; and all infants wheresoever born, whose father, if living, or otherwise, whose mother was, a citizen at the time of their birth, or who migrate hither, their father, if living, or otherwise their mother becoming a citizen, or who migrate hither without father or mother, shall be deemed citizens of this commonwealth, until they relinquish that character in manner as herein after expressed: And all others not being citizens of any the United States of America, shall be deemed aliens.
Take it up with your ancestors if you don't like it. You might also read the appendixes of Tucker's Blackstone in which Tucker dispells the myths that English common law had any force in any of the United States or Federal Govt after the revolution & ratification of the consitution. In fact, Tucker tells us that the common laws brought over by the Dutch & the Swedes that were based on natural law, "jus sanguinis" was not thwarted by the British invasion of 1763.
http://www.lonang.com/exlibris/tucker/index.html