Read the CONTEXT, genius. I was speaking in the CONTEXT of the CONGRESSIONAL DEBATES.
In that CONTEXT, nobody ever said differently.
In that CONTEXT, nobody ever said differently.
You can't possibly be serious. How on earth did you miss, "Not owing allegiance to anybody else. That is what it means."
If the intent instead was to exclude only anyone "owing allegiance to an Indian Nation," they would have said that. They didn't. The exact stipulation is:
"Not owing allegiance to anybody else. That is what it means."
U.S. Secretaries of State understood that. An International Arbitrator understood that. And that was shortly AFTER the debates and ratification took place. They knew EXACTLY what it meant.
Friedrich de Bourry, born in New York on December 4, 1862, to an Austrian citizen father who was only temporarily in the U.S.
The U.S. Secretary of State ruled that he WASN'T a U.S. citizen at birth because his father wasn't a U.S. citizen, never made the requisite declaration of his intention to become a citizen, or in any way signified his intention formally to abjure his Austrian allegiance.