Citizenship by inheritance belongs to none but the children of those Americans, who, having survived the Declaration of Independence, acquired that adventitious character in their own right, and transmitted it to their offspring.

— David Ramsay A Dissertation on the Manners of Acquiring the Character and Privileges of a Citizen (1789)

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