dont remember seeing you on the board since i’ve joined but i’ll remind myself no to debate you :)
thanks for the pertinent info.
but now i’m more confused than ever about that Act.
maybe they tried to duck it lol.
I keep a low profile.
I enjoy debate with people who are open minded, not pedantic, not dullards, and who are reasonably close to "intellectually honest." I have a penchant for resort to primary authority such as constitutions, statutory language, rules of (court) procedure, and court cases. In debate with others, I have been known to get prickly.
-- but now i'm more confused than ever about that Act. --
To be expected. It is a statute, and how those operate is, believe it or not, somewhat of a mystery to the layman. Nothing wrong with that. I think whoever wrote the act realized, by 1795, that an Act of Congress could not be allowed to over-ride the constitution, so the Act was repealed and replaced. Congress can naturalize (turn a person born alien under the constitution into a citizen) any person it wants to.