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Please note that our Framers had just liberated themselves from British Common Law. Why on Earth would they go ahead and adopt Common Law rule here?

If you are interested in why we don’t follow common law please take a few minutes to read this:

http://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/

Scroll down to: LEO DONOFRIO COMMENTS ON JUDAH BENJAMIN ARTICLE CONCERNING NATURAL BORN CITIZEN AND THE COMMON LAW

It’s a simple explanation.

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Please note that our Framers had just liberated themselves from British Common Law.

Not true. The centuries of English Common law that existed before independence are still a part of our legal system. We did not start with a blank legal slate at Independence.

Why on Earth would they go ahead and adopt Common Law rule here?

US law is, and always has been, Common Law (except in Louisiana and some of the former Mexican territories in the Southwest, to a certain extent).