From: Alex Ferguson (abf@cs.ucc.ie)
Date: Thu 07 Jan 1999 - 19:16:33 EET
Steve Lieb replies to person or persons unknown:
> >>Neither can adopted members (usually) hold clan official seats.
> >I don't think this is true. Wives (or husbands for matrilineal clans)
> >get accepted into the clan with all rights and responsibilities, so
> >why not adoptees? If they didn't trust him, they wouldn't have adopted
> >him in the first place.
> I don't think this is so odd - you can become a naturalized citizen of the
> USA, but you still can't be president. Your descendant could.
And how many similar examples can you come up with, either of officials
in the United States, or of a parallel case elsewhere? The presidential
thang is an ad hoc special case requirement, it doesn't correspond to
any general principle, much less a distinguished class of 'citizen',
so far as I'm aware.
Slan,
Alex.
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