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To: BP2

I copied your post into the comments of this page, to keep track of them. I feel bad that I didn’t take the time to dig into Blackstone on the matter for the article!

http://investigatingobama.blogspot.com/2008/12/donofrio-dual-citizenship-natural-born.html

Feel free to add any further comments.


782 posted on 12/05/2008 8:34:29 PM PST by unspun (PRAY & WORK FOR FREEDOM - investigatingobama.blogspot.com)
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To: BP2
About your citations of Blackstone, I posted this in the comments at http://investigatingobama.blogspot.com/2008/12/donofrio-dual-citizenship-natural-born.html and would like your feedback, either in those comments or here.
After further analysis of the comments attributed to Blackstone, one can see that he is observing the two criteria for being a "natural born subject," of 1. birth within the nation and, 2. birth citizenship passed from one's father's citizenship, within English law.

However, as I see it, he does not attempt to induce a broad principle in the event of one meeting both standards. It would seem that the scribes of English law saw these two principles of natural law and deduced each to be allowable particulary for English law.

However, Blackstone did observe the problem where these two criteria of citizenship conflict (as did Jesus Christ) that one "cannot owe two such allegiances, or serve two masters, at once."

It would be interesting, whether meritorious or not to American Constitutional law, to know how English law treated allegiance and "natural born" allegiance when a child of a citizen/subject of another nation was born in the lands of the English crown.

793 posted on 12/06/2008 7:40:50 PM PST by unspun (PRAY & WORK FOR FREEDOM - investigatingobama.blogspot.com)
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