What is Coverture?

[Keith Broaders]

Blackstone wrote, “By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband.

As early as 1804, US Naturalization Acts specifically tied married women's access to citizenship to their state of marriage. Provisions of the Naturalization Act of 1855 extended coverture by tying wives' citizenship and those of her children to the citizenship of their white husband or father.

Wives were considered to be the property of theor hiusbands and they rally didm't habe the same rights as their husbands>When a child was born, the child's citizenship was inherited from the father..

The founders insisted on the the Natiral Born Citizenship requirement be added ro insure the undivided loyalty of all future Presidents. If a candate's father owed their allegiance  to a foreign state the national security would be at risk.

The founders wanted future Prsidents to have absolute loyalty to the new nation and candidates with divided loyalties may jeopardize the best interets of the Unoted States.

To be eligible to run for the Presidency the candidate must have attained the age of 35 and been a resident ofthe United States for 14 years. All candidates must have a father who was a citizens of the United States at the time of their birth.

All children born in the United States are automatically citizens of the United States, but only those that had fathers that were U.S. Citizens at the time of their birth qualify as Natural Born citizens.

The citizenship of the mother was not taken into consideration based on the Doctrine of Coverture.

If Osama Bin Laden or Sadam Hussein raped a tourist  that was a citizen of the Unoted States the children born as a result would be Birthright citizens of the United States.