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nxobjectyesterday at 12:57 PM1 replyview on HN

i.e., welcome to Constitutional law, where divining the effect of a amendment written in 19th century prose lives and dies on jurisprudential philosophy, rather than decided case law. (Is that what you mean by the “(and common law?)” parenthetical?)


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oldsklgdfthyesterday at 1:58 PM

By common law I refer to British common law which pops up in opinions.

References to "domicile" come from common law (in Trump v Barb).

I may be mistaken.