No, it was defined in English common law prior to the adoption of the Constitution. The reading in the law of 1790 was actually an aberrant definition, and one which Madison succeeded in removing a mere five years later.
English Common Law was NEVER adopted as the law of the United States, despite its prevalence in many of the individual states. In fact most of the Framers were actively hostile to the notion. Most certainle our citizenship would NEVER have been modeled on the English law which at the time did not even cosider the notion of “citizenship”.
The English were subjects of the King, and we Americans determined that we would NEVER be subjects again. If yoy recall correctly, we fought a very tough war to establish just that.
No it wasn't. I know. I've looked.
“No, it was defined in English common law prior to the adoption of the Constitution. The reading in the law of 1790 was actually an aberrant definition, and one which Madison succeeded in removing a mere five years later.”
You are so full of crap.