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"This law and concept of claim to the subjects to the Crown, regardless of place of birth is still in effect in Great Britain, and had the effect of Congress passing a law that required all the officers and three fourths of the seamen on a ship of the United States be natural born citizens. (Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, February 9, 1813)."
There's a difference between passing a law making someone a citizen, and requiring companies that own and staff ships to assure that the all the officers and the majority of other seamen be citizens.
It's like an early nineteenth century Homeland Security measure. They didn't have the means to do background investigations, so they did what they could to ensure the loyalty of seamen on American ships was to the United States.
I don't know much about these sponsors, I was just listening to the message. If it was out of line, I would not of posted it. The message is free of anything racist.
"This law and concept of claim to the subjects to the Crown, regardless of place of birth is still in effect in Great Britain, and had the effect of Congress passing a law that required all the officers and three fourths of the seamen on a ship of the United States be natural born citizens. (Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, February 9, 1813)."
I don't know much about these sponsors, I was just listening to the message. If it was out of line, I would not of posted it. The message is free of anything racist.
The message is a lie. The source of the message is racist.
That has nothing to do with the issue being discussed.
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Originally Posted by HistorianDude
Actually... no he wasn't. There are, in fact, no laws regarding American citizenship that "cover our military men and women" differently from any other foreign born child of American citizens. There was a special law passed for Americans (both military and civilian) born in the Canal Zone, and even though it was not passed until the year after McCain was born, it was retroactive to 1904.
But no special laws for the military exist.
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Originally Posted by ergohead
Well, what happened to them?
"This law and concept of claim to the subjects to the Crown, regardless of place of birth is still in effect in Great Britain, and had the effect of Congress passing a law that required all the officers and three fourths of the seamen on a ship of the United States be natural born citizens. (Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, February 9, 1813)."
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