State practice confirms that no one is born a subject of any government.

Evidence

But, it is plain, governments themselves understand it otherwise; they claim no power over the son, because of that they had over the father; nor look on children as being their subjects, by their fathers being so. If a subject of England have a child, by an English woman in France, whose subject is he? … It is plain then, by the practice of governments themselves, as well as by the law of right reason, that a child is born a subject of no country or government. — John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, 142

Categorization

• XREF: Runs parallel to A Midwife’s Tale-era disputes about allegiance and the legal leverage of consent. — connects to: Rotten boroughs show that custom-based representation becomes absurd over time — John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, 194; Birthplace does not make anyone a natural subject of a government. — John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, 142

Related

• Birthplace does not make anyone a natural subject of a government. (similarity 0.89)