[patlin]

you're back to promoting that old propaganda again? One would think you would learn that we at freepers are neither lazy or so ignorant to take a propagandist at face value.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2539663/posts?page=94#94

What you leave out is that part of the discussion that pertained to citizen, not NBC & Madison also further went on to say that

“Mr. Smith founds his claims upon his birthright; his ancestors were among the first settlers of that colony...if he were not a minor, he became bound, by his own act, ... if he was a minor, his consent was involved in the decision of that society to which he belonged by the ties of nature.”

Smith was making his claim that he was a citizen by mere fact of jus soli birthright, however Madison goes on to dispel that claim. Madison further explains farther into his speech on the floor that Smith being a minor at the time of the Declaration of Independence; Smith's citizenship came through his father(ties of nature). IOW, according to Madison, birth on soil did NOT automatically make one a citizen, the parents must have been citizens for the child to become one.

[OldDeckHand]

"you're back to promoting that old propaganda again? One would think you would learn that we at freepers are neither lazy or so ignorant to take a propagandist at face value."

Who are calling a propagandist, asshole?