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melm00se

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5. History repeating itself

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Wed Jun 12, 2019, 08:37 AM

Jun 2019

Back in colonial America days, it was relatively common for Britain to take an accused and ship them back to England for trial. This was one of the reasons that the US embedded protections against this kind of governmental behavior in the Constitution (6th Amendment).

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Does anyone know Sgent Jun 2019 #1

No, they were never full UK citizens, so they didn't have the automatic right to move to the UK muriel_volestrangler Jun 2019 #2

Damn, my peeps, coming correct! mr_lebowski Jun 2019 #3

And we haven't been doing this here every time .. ananda Jun 2019 #4

History repeating itself melm00se Jun 2019 #5