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Garrett Papit wrote:
Leo did a good job of tearing holes in the English Common Law "natural-born subject" argument [in his amicus brief] with his religion argument as well. The King of England is supposed to be Christ's representative on Earth...much like the Pope in the Catholic Church. The US is Constitutionally prohibited from using a definition of citizenship that requires Christian faith. End of story.
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Wait. The Queen of England is really the Pope? She is the Bishop of the Bishops, the prima inter pares? The things one is taught by birfers. Of course, when she married she promised to love, cherish and obey, so what does that make the Duke? Primus inter primis?
But that is just a minor happerset. The major happerset is to be found in Calvin's case, where those who claimed Calvin was not entitled to his English inheritance, expressly made the argument that Calvin was a natural born subject of the King of Scotland, but not a natural born subject of the King of England. Calvin's case rejected this claim and said that all born in England or Scotland after the KIng of Scotland became the King of England were natural born subjects of England. "Neither soil nor climate does allegiance and obedience make, but jurisdiction."
No way could they more positively have said that the King of Scotland and the King of England were the same person, the same function and the same title, and that this was not a dual monarchy (like Austria-Hungary in later years).
The established church of Scotland is calvinist and does not believe in bishops or a human representative of Christ on earth. The Monarch of England, while head of the Church of England, becomes a calvinist when crossing the border.
Of course, Leo could still go the MichaelN way and declare that Calvin's case (doesn't the name now start to sound funny and ominous?) was wrongly decided.
The religious angle is simply bogus. Though it is funny that it is being used by the same people who elsewhere proclaim that the United States was built on Christian ideals and principles.