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To: edge919
And you believe simply being born within a geographical location would have been more important to the founders than whether children are born to foreign national citizens who don't become U.S. citizens and have no intention of becoming citizens nor even permanent residents??

"Allegiance, both express and implied, is however distinguished by the law into two sorts or species, the one natural, the other local; the former being also perpetual, the latter temporary. Natural allegiance is such as is due from all men born within the king's dominions immediately upon their birth. For, immediately upon their birth, they are under the king's protection; at a time too, when (during their infancy) they are incapable of protecting themselves. Natural allegiance is therefore a debt of gratitude; which cannot be forfeited, canceled, or altered, by any change of time, place, or circumstance, nor by any thing but the united concurrence of the legislature. An Englishman who removes to France, or to China, owes the same allegiance to the king of England there as at home, and twenty years hence as well as now. For it is a principle of universal law, that the natural-born subject of one prince cannot by any act of his own, no, not by swearing allegiance to another, put off or discharge his natural allegiance to the former: for this natural allegiance was intrinsic, and primitive, and antecedent to the other; and cannot be devested without the concurrent act of that prince to whom it was first due. Indeed the natural-born subject of one prince, to whom he owes allegiance, may be entangled by subjecting himself absolutely to another; but it is his own act that brings him into these straits and difficulties, of owing service to two masters; and it is unreasonable that, by such voluntary act of his own, he should be able at pleasure to unloose those bands, by which he is connected to his natural prince." - William Blackstone, 1765

123 posted on 08/25/2010 3:13:44 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur

I didn’t ask you about British law or what allegiance a subject owes to a monarach or ‘natural prince.’ Last I recall, we don’t have any of those in the United States.


125 posted on 08/25/2010 3:25:47 PM PDT by edge919
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