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To: Rides3

Post 193 is wrong, not in content but in your interpretation. And I’m getting this “bogus information” from the US Supreme Court.

I suspect you are confusing natural born subject status with passing that status on to multiple generations born outside of the UK.

Read WKA, section 4, starting with:

“Both in England and in the United States, indeed, statutes have been passed at various times enacting that certain issue born abroad of English subjects or of American citizens, respectively, should inherit, to some extent at least, the rights of their parents. But those statutes applied only to cases coming within their purport, and they have never been considered in either country as affecting the citizenship of persons born within its dominion.

The earliest statute was passed in the reign of Edward III. In the Rolls of Parliament of 17 Edw. III (1343), it is stated that...”


197 posted on 05/31/2012 6:42:28 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (A conservative can't please a liberal unless he jumps in front of a bus or off of a cliff)
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To: Mr Rogers
Post 193 is wrong

No, Mr Rogers, the House of Commons Journal is NOT wrong. Children born in England to foreign parents were denizens, NOT natural born subjects.

203 posted on 05/31/2012 7:03:58 PM PDT by Rides3
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