[DiogenesLamp]

I STUDIED Latin, you idiot. What I hate is your pretentiousness in bandying it about as if you know what the hell you're talking about, and are some kind of authority, when you don't, and aren't.

I find it amusing that of all the aspects to which you could have responded, it is my needling you about Latin that you thought the most important. (Narcissism much?)

And thus do you completely dodge the point. But hey, I can simply repeat it without leaving you a side issue behind which to hide.

Let me repeat. "Calvin" was BORN-AFTER James I ascended the throne of England and thereby Uniting England and Scotland, so under the rules of English law, anyone born in Scotland AFTER James I became King, was born as a subject of the King.

So why did it take 14 judges and much deliberation to figure this out?

[Jeff Winston]

So why did it take 14 judges and much deliberation to figure this out?

I already responded to this, which is why I didn't respond to it a second time.

You obviously have no understanding of the history. Even though James VI became king of England as well as of Scotland, the two countries were still two separate countries, with different parliaments, different administrations, different legal systems...

They were TWO DIFFERENT COUNTRIES, who happened at that point to have the same King.

Full unification of the two countries into one didn't take place until a century or so later.

See my previous post, which, if you read it, you didn't understand.