To: Cletus.D.Yokel
Here is where I depart. The founders included the NBC phrase as was common knowledge among the citizens of the colonies. NBC meant born of citizens parentS[sic-plural] on US soil or abroad while in service to the US.
Actually, the early laws don't say that. If you study the wording, you'll realize that only the father had to be a US citizen.
60 posted on
08/30/2013 1:30:04 PM PDT by
xzins
( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory!)
To: xzins
Any wording by the framers using man, or both parents is possibly based on the old Common Law principle of coverture which has since been abandoned by most civilized societies.
68 posted on
08/30/2013 1:44:53 PM PDT by
gov_bean_ counter
(Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
To: xzins
Actually, the early laws don't say that. If you study the wording, you'll realize that only the father had to be a US citizen. You're right but up until 1920 US citizenship was immediately conferred upon a foreign woman by marriage to a US citizen -- so if the father was a US citizen then the mother became one as well instantaneously.
To: xzins
Actually, the early laws don't say that. If you study the wording, you'll realize that only the father had to be a US citizen. I ran across this comment of yours the other day and I was shocked and amazed. You DID Understand the point! Only the Father's citizenship mattered because women were naturalized (if foreign) by marriage.
There was never a condition in which parents ever had differing nationalities. (Until 1922.)
595 posted on
09/01/2013 1:48:34 PM PDT by
DiogenesLamp
(Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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