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A person born in Australia would be both an Australian citizen and a British subject. [19] British subjects under the previous meaning who held that status on 1 January 1949 because of a connection with the United Kingdom or a remaining colony became Citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies (CUKC). CUKC status was the principal form of ...
British nationality law has its origins in medieval England.There has always been a distinction in English law between the subjects of the monarch and aliens: the monarch's subjects owed him allegiance, and included those born in his dominions (natural-born subjects) and those who later gave him their allegiance (naturalised subjects or denizens).
This page provides a list of British philosophers; of people who either worked within Great Britain, or the country's citizens working abroad. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Although Irish citizens have not been considered British subjects under Irish law since 1935, [37] the British government continued to treat virtually all Irish citizens as British subjects, except for those who had acquired Irish citizenship by naturalisation since the Free State had not incorporated part II of the British Nationality and ...
Dispute over whether Irish citizens were British subjects continued until most of Ireland formally declared itself a republic in 1948. Since April 1949, Irish citizens who were born and raised in the Republic of Ireland have no longer been automatically considered as British subjects (unlike Irish citizens born and raised in Northern Ireland).
Let us take this sentence as an example - "Although the term British subject now has a very restrictive statutory definition in the United Kingdom, and it would therefore be incorrect to describe a British citizen as a British subject, the concept of a subject is still recognised by the law, and nationals of countries of which Her Majesty Queen ...
The British Nationality Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 56) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom on British nationality law which defined British nationality by creating the status of "Citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies" (CUKC) as the sole national citizenship of the United Kingdom and all of its colonies.
The "rights of Englishmen" are the traditional rights of English subjects and later English-speaking subjects of the British Crown.In the 18th century, some of the colonists who objected to British rule in the thirteen British North American colonies that would become the first United States argued that their traditional [1] rights as Englishmen were being violated.