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Please... link to the actual page where it says Jefferson was only an "honorary" French citizen. Note that it gets it wrong... missing that Paine and Barlow also had honorary French citizenship.
According to the usages and understanding of all nations a man may have all the rights of a naturalized citizen or subject in his adopted country, and yet retain all his relations, civil and political, in his native country. For instances, the Marqui La Fayette was naturalized in the United States, but retained every such relation to France. So Mr. Jefferson was naturalized in France and there made a French citizen, and he had gone there would have been entitled to all the rights there of an adopted citizen, but he certainly retained all his relations to the United States, his rights and duties as a native citizen, and was in fact after such naturalization, elected President of the United States.
From:A general abridgment and digest of American law: with occasional notes and comments by Nathan Dane , 1824.
Note in particular that Dane was writing more than a century earlier than Adams... much closer to the actual time being recorded. Adams can be forgiving his sloppiness, writing as he was in 1947.
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ROTFL! So much info from "BirtherReport.com!" And naturally...a book without available text on-line.
So much for any credibility there might have been. One must have a copy at hand to remember such details; why not type in the necessary text?
Not sure what you're talking about. I've quoted, cited, and linked SCOTUS, the Library of Congress, the U.S. State Department, etc.
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And naturally...a book without available text on-line.
So much for any credibility there might have been. One must have a copy at hand to remember such details; why not type in the necessary text?
Yeah, right... anyone can just make anything up if they just "type in the necessary text." Do yourself a favor... go to the library and read the book. Maybe you'll learn some history, too.
Not sure what you're talking about. I've quoted, cited, and linked SCOTUS, the Library of Congress, the U.S. State Department, etc.
Yeah, right... anyone can just make anything up if they just "type in the necessary text." Do yourself a favor... go to the library and read the book. Maybe you'll learn some history, too.
LOL! Toasted. Hoisted by one's own petard. Exposed as a fraud. Buh-bye!
No need to run. Instead, I'm helpfully guiding you in the right direction. Go straight to the source, Frank. I quoted the U.S. State Department, verbatim. Your dispute is with them.
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