Trump v. Barbara · ¶373

In fact, by the 1840s, even English law had evolved. England had moved on from “the darkness of the middle ages” and—as the “subjects of one kingdom began to migrate into and reside in other countries”—had begun to attach a newfound “importance to the Law of Domicil.” Law of Domicil 14. Well before the Citizenship Clause, this Court explained that “the Courts of England ha[d] decided, that a person who removes to a foreign country, settles himself there, and engages in the trade of the country, furnishes, by these acts, such evidence of an intention permanently to reside there, as to stamp him with the national character of the state where he resides.” The Venus, 8 Cranch, at 279. A year after the Citizenship Clause, a renowned English case declared that a person’s civil status, “by virtue of which he has ascribed to him the character of a citizen of some particular country,” is…

slip opinion, revised 7/01/26
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