Trump v. Barbara · ¶66

Of course, some wished to change the rule. But even those who wished to limit jus soli did not deny that children born of temporary visitors owed natural allegiance to the United States. They instead thought that domicile might serve as a “reasonable qualification” to the common law rule (namely, that citizenship derives solely from the “[n]atural allegiance” owed “to the government of the territory of a man’s birth”). J. Story, Commentaries on the Conflict of Laws §§21, 48, pp. 22, 48 (1834) (Story).

slip opinion, revised 7/01/26
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