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To: RegulatorCountry

I don’t think Congress in 1790 wrongly decided it. What they did not contemplate was being brought into another war so soon. They also did not contemplate England refusing the right of expatriation they reclaimed for themselves and unfortunately, the Treaty of Paris did not specifically address this right as it pertained to naturalized British immigrants in the US.

The doubts in Minor v Happersett pertained to the feudal doctrine fo “jus soli” that still existed in a few of the states after the Declaration of Independence during the Confederacy but prior to the adoptio of the US Constitution.


58 posted on 04/10/2011 4:21:27 PM PDT by patlin (Reagan was a Democrat before he was a Republican: "I didn't leave the Democrat Party, they left me")
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To: patlin
I don’t think Congress in 1790 wrongly decided it.

Obviously they did. Return to enumerated powers of the Legislative pertaining to citizenship, which was and is "an uniform rule of Naturalization." Period. If there's anything natural born isn't, it's naturalized.

60 posted on 04/10/2011 4:43:39 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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