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Interesting treatise isn't it. I have had this for quite some time and it just happened that I have been expanding my library on citizenship. Just got done reading an interesting case from the VA supreme court of 1805. The case was never overturned by the US Supreme Court and thus its holding stood as constitutional in that there was no such thing as perpetual allegiance or feudal birthright citizenship adopted by the federal government in the constitution. I'm now off to go fetch a copy of International Law by Karl von Savigny who was considered the ultimate authority and was the most quoted by the higher courts of the time. After Savigny, I plan to pull all I can from Dicey. Dicey is quite outspoken about Kent's tendencies to fall back to ECL which was NOT that of the law of the US and that even though Kent's works are important, they also must be scrutinized.