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In her Washington Post op-ed, McManamon quotes 18th century English jurist William Blackstone, who said natural born citizens are those born within the dominions of the crown of England, and aliens are those born outside of it.
But he’s not the only source for her argument.
“He just summarized it,” McManamon told TPM. “I went back as far as 1350 and read all the case law I could find on it, all the statutes I can find on it and in addition, I went and found all the records of naturalization for the two centuries before 1700.”
She pointed out that England is an island nation, and through it history, its citizenry was made up of a lot of merchants who settled abroad.
“They have kids, and those kids are not natural born citizens. But the Parliament passed a couple of statutes that would help them out a little bit,” she said -- statutes like one in 1350 that let foreign-born children at least inherit from their English-born parents, as at the time it was illegal for an alien to inherit from someone who was English.
“It doesn’t make them citizens, it just says, ‘Let’s let them inherit’,” she said.
She also looked at the statutes passed in response to the wars that rocked English history.
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