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To: null and void

The Founders concept of loyalties is the best proof that children of military/diplomatic officers born aboard are indeed Natural born citizens. There would be no divided loyalties in such cases merely because of being born outside the US.

While those concepts apertaining to a King were not relevant to a Republic often a mere substitution is involved replacing King or Kingdom with State. And it is also a fact that Blackstone was the most relevant piece of legal doctrine in the early republic particularly as for as legal theory goes.


2,366 posted on 11/19/2008 9:43:30 PM PST by arrogantsob (Hero vs Zero)
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To: arrogantsob
The Founders concept of loyalties is the best proof that children of military/diplomatic officers born aboard are indeed Natural born citizens.

That and the fact that it's explicitly called out in the 1790 law.

Too bad they overrode it with the 1795 law.

And it is also a fact that Blackstone was the most relevant piece of legal doctrine in the early republic particularly as for as legal theory goes.

The Founding Fathers were creating a "Novus Ordo Seclorum", just like it say on every dollar bill in your wallet. Blackstone was a reference, not a straightjacket.

2,370 posted on 11/19/2008 9:55:39 PM PST by null and void (0bama is Gorbachev treating a dying system with the same poison that's killing it in the first place)
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