Nothing is better settled at the common law than the doctrine that the children, even of aliens, born in a country, while the parents reside there un…

- St. George Tucker

Civil rights, as we may remember, are reducible to three primary heads; the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty; and the right …

- St. George Tucker

Whilst America hath been the land of promise to Europeans, and their descendants, it hath been the vale of death to millions of the wretched sons of …

- St. George Tucker

That provision in the constitution which requires that the president shall be a native-born citizen (unless he were a citizen of the United States wh…

- St. George Tucker

The congress of the United States possesses no power to regulate, or interfere with the domestic concerns, or police of any state: it belongs not to …

- St. George Tucker

Wherever standing armies are kept up, and when the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, l…

- St. George Tucker

The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, and this without any qualification as to their condition or degree, as is the c…

- St. George Tucker

There was a sorry judge who lived at the Swan by himself. He got but little honor, and he got but little pelf [i.e. wealth], He drudged and judged fr…

- St. George Tucker