You've managed to even confuse yourself, if that's possible.
What other "legal words" would they have chosen? Those "legal words" weren't unique to English law were they? Didn't many countries have similar "legal words"?
Can you explain why the fact that WKA doesn’t discuss the war of 1812 has any signifigance?
Why are you trying to change the subject instead of answering my question?
The British Navy only impressed naturalized US citizens - those not born on American soil.
How did the British know who they impressed? Did they make them show a copy of their birth certificate while they were at sea?
Try to avoid my questions all you like, they're still there.
Two separate issues:
1. Constitution was written using the language of the English common law.
2. All the states pasted Reception Statutes incorporating English common law into their systems of laws.
The point of course being that the founding fathers seemed to be very happy with most of the English common law and the idea that they would interpret NBC using English common law makes perfect sense.