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To: arrogantsob
Nope.

The "Rights" of Englishmen included having their American born kids press ganged into the Royal Navy.

That's what being a subject and the doctrine of jus sanguinus means. The Crown owns you and all your descendants.

Americans are not subjects. We are citizens.

2,388 posted on 11/19/2008 11:03:18 PM PST by null and void (0bama is Gorbachev treating a dying system with the same poison that's killing it in the first place)
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To: null and void

You can argue with those leading the Revolution. They were clear that they were defending their rights as Englishmen until things went so far that War overtook them. Their consent had not been obtained for taxes since they had no representation in Parliament as Englishmen had the right to have.

Not since the Magna Carta had the legal theory you claim been in effect. English Kings were not totalitarians and were limited in what they could do which was essentially nothing not allowed by Law.

We are subject to law just as if we were under a King.


2,390 posted on 11/19/2008 11:09:46 PM PST by arrogantsob (Hero vs Zero)
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