As part of its sovereign powers, each country will have different pathways to citizenship—mostly either by blood (jus sanguinis) or by way of place of birth (jus soli). Some can acquire citizenship by ...

This coming February, the City of Biñan will be celebrating not just one but three important events that mark its history and heritage – its 13th Cityhood Anniversary (February 2), its 78th Liberation ...

Accidental Americans are people who inherit US citizenship by birthright or lineage but have little connection to the country ...

WWII global order is breaking down, and the new one that is now emerging shares some unsettling similarities with the 1930s.

The opposition to Donald Trump’s order is not due to its perceived injustice but rather its blatant and flagrant violation of ...

Birthright citizenship, or jus soli (right of the soil), is not the ... and parts of Africa adhere to the jus sanguinis (right of blood) principle, where children inherit their nationality from ...

Our political class is aflame, and our lawyer-ocracy is up in arms over President Trump’s executive order limiting the scope of “birthright” (or “soil-based”) citizenship to children of ...

Over in Europe however, the majority of states practice the principle of jus sanguinis — which gives ... Some countries do have a form of jus soli, but it comes with conditions, most often ...

We, like the British, follow the Roman jus soli – the law of soil. Yet that term is entirely absent in Blackstone’s “Commentaries,” the leading British legal treatise of the 18th century.

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