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Yep, I was just hoping that teacher Historiandude or company would elaborate in regards to the English Common Law and those infamous "doubts" in Minor...
Why would you assume SCOTUS was referring to anything else?
Because it is cretinous to to assert (as you do here) that SCOTUS believed that the children of any aliens born on US soil after Independence would be British Subjects.
And I do not believe that the Supreme Court is filled with cretins.
Because it is cretinous to to assert (as you do here) that SCOTUS believed that the children of any aliens born on US soil after Independence would be British Subjects.
SCOTUS never stated that. Not sure why you would make such a ridiculous assumption.
What SCOTUS did state was that children of aliens born in England were natural born subjects.
Read it again:
Quote:
"It thus clearly appears that, by the law of England for the last three centuries, beginning before the settlement of this country and continuing to the present day, aliens, while residing in the dominions possessed by the Crown of England, were within the allegiance, the obedience, the faith or loyalty, the protection, the power, the jurisdiction of the English Sovereign, and therefore every child born in England of alien parents was a natural-born subject unless the child of an ambassador or other diplomatic agent of a foreign State or of an alien enemy in hostile occupation of the place where the child was born."
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