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To: Jeff Winston
"And the thirteenth adopted the common law rule for citizenship."

Cite the statute or state Constitution reception.


The doctrine of "natural born subject" includes perpetual allegiance. The United States has NEVER adopted this doctrine.

As a consequence of perpetual allegiance Great Britain recognized double allegiance. The United States did not.

The Parliament of Great Britain enacts statutes determining which foreigners may be admitted as "natural born subjects". Each Colony adopted select portions of English common law and statutes up until the reign of various monarchs. As a consequence the common law and statutes adopted varied from one Colony to the next. The statutes admitting foreigners as "natural born subjects" varied from one Colony to the next.

Great Britain did not have a naturalization process. The United States does.

The difference between "natural born subject" and "natural born citizen" are manifest. It is common sense.

Here is David Ramsay:

People changed from subjects to citizens [and] the difference is immense. Subject... means one who is under the power of another; but a citizen is an unit of a mass of free people, who, collectively, possess sovereignty. Subjects look up to a master, but citizens are so far equal, that none have hereditary rights superior to others. Each citizen of a free state contains, within himself, by nature and the constitution, as much of the common sovereignty as another.

93 posted on 04/15/2013 12:31:51 AM PDT by Ray76 (Do you reject Obama? And all his works? And all his empty promises?)
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To: Jeff Winston
The take-away here is
94 posted on 04/15/2013 12:41:13 AM PDT by Ray76 (Do you reject Obama? And all his works? And all his empty promises?)
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To: Jeff Winston
"And the thirteenth adopted the common law rule for citizenship."

Cite the statute or state Constitution reception.

Waiting...
103 posted on 04/15/2013 8:10:27 AM PDT by Ray76 (Do you reject Obama? And all his works? And all his empty promises?)
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