To: philman_36; Brown Deer
The full passage states that one becomes a citizen at birth. He deals in that chapter with two classes of citizens - those by birth, and those naturalized. So what is your point?
104 posted on
08/08/2010 6:33:45 PM PDT by
Mr Rogers
(When the ass brays, don't reply...)
To: Mr Rogers
The full passage states that one becomes a citizen at birth.You ignoramus! He was only talking about
a select group of people!
The citizens of each state constituted the citizens of the United States when the Constitution was adopted. The rights which appertained to them as citizens of those respective commonwealths, accompanied them in the formation of the great, compound commonwealth which ensued. They became citizens of the latter, without ceasing to be citizens of the former, and he who was subsequently born a citizen of a state, became at the moment of his birth a citizen of the United States. Therefore every person born within the United States, its territories or districts, whether the parents are citizens or aliens, is a natural born citizen in the sense of the Constitution, and entitled to all the rights and privileges appertaining to that capacity.
Rawles was talking about those who were alive or were born
then,
when the Constitution was adopted, not those who would be born a generation or more later.
So what is your point?
That you don't know what Rawle was writing about.
119 posted on
08/08/2010 7:01:06 PM PDT by
philman_36
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