I thought this was common knowledge, are it was when I went to school. The people who wrote the constitution did not believe in having military spread across the world. Don't bitch at me, you need to take it up with them.
Not having a military spread across the world could makes matters at home very difficult.
I’m not sure who taught you how to fight wars and win battles, but from what I was taught, you always take the fight to your enemy to stop them from taking it to you on your home soil, you keep your citizens safe that way.
I guess your view is more along the lines of waiting till they’re coming on the shores before you engage them.
If this is so then why, pray tell, have we had a navy throughout our entire history and why did we send our first foreign expeditionary force out at the end of the eighteenth century to fight the Barbary Pirates in the Mediterranean?
>> I thought this was common knowledge, are it was when I went to school. <<
You need to get a tuition refund. Panama WAS part of the United States, just like Barry Goldwater’s birthplace, the territory which would later become Arizona. And you didn’t actually need to be born in the United States to be born a natural citizen of the United States. Ask George Romney, 1968 presidential candidate, who was born in Mexico.
>> The people who wrote the constitution did not believe in having military spread across the world. <<
Tell that to Thomas Jefferson, who spent much of the era of the Articles of Confederation in France! They sure as hell did believe that the United States should have a diplomatic presence throughout the world, and take the fight to whoever would attack us.
The actual text of the U.S. Constitution, as amended: “the children of citizens of the United States that may be born beyond sea, or outside the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born citizens.”