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To: sometime lurker
There are clear statements that these are natural born subjects.

"Generally speaking" natural born subjects that do NOT have the same privileges as ACTUAL natural born subjects? Um... NO.

FAIL.

236 posted on 06/01/2012 9:15:03 AM PDT by Rides3
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To: Rides3
You have misunderstood, whether deliberately or because your reading and scholarship abilities are subpar. Blackstone is pretty definitive:
natural-born subjects having a great variety of rights, which they acquire by being born within the king's ligeance, and can never forfeit by any distance of place or time, but only by their own misbehaviour: the explanation of which rights is the principal subject of the two first books of these commentaries. The same is also in some degree the case of aliens; though their rights are much more circumscribed, being acquired only by residence here, and lost whenever they remove.

238 posted on 06/01/2012 9:22:25 AM PDT by sometime lurker
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