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To: Cboldt
Ok, we'll cross that ocean when we get to it. Your hypo was 1800's. It's moot.

No, it's one of the reasons exceptions to the rule were proposed. Travel was slow and arduous. Penalizing a child for being born enroute is absurd on it's face. Such a child is native born. Citizenship was not inferred by the Dutch government. The child assumed the status of his parents.

110 posted on 01/21/2016 8:48:43 AM PST by roamer_1 (Globalism is just Socialism in a business suit.)
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To: roamer_1

Difference there is in international waters a child would be born without a country. Good thing Maritime law would most likely provide that the ship registry controls citizenship.


161 posted on 01/23/2016 8:41:28 AM PST by GeaugaRepublican (Angry yes, mad, no.)
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