It is good to feel protected

Esav Benyamin said:
No, the British are not subjects, they are citizens. The monarch reigns but does not rule. See Wikipedia: British nationality law is the law of the United Kingdom concerning British citizenship and other categories of British nationality. The law is complex owing to the United Kingdom's former status as an imperial power.

The British Nationality Act 1948 established the status of Citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies (CUKC), the national citizenship of the United Kingdom and those places that were still British colonies on 1 January 1949, when the 1948 Act came into force. However, until the early 1960s there was little difference, if any, in United Kingdom law between the rights of CUKCs and other British subjects, all of whom had the right at any time to enter and live in the United Kingdom.

Although there have been several amendments to the 1971 Act in the intervening years, the principal British nationality law today is the British Nationality Act 1981, which established the current system of multiple categories of British nationality, viz. British citizens, British Overseas Territories citizens, British Overseas citizens, British Nationals (Overseas), British subjects and British protected persons. Only British citizenship includes the automatic right of abode in the United Kingdom.
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My point was that an unarmed man is a subject regardless of what the legislature designates him as. ;)
 
Esav Benyamin said:
No, the British are not subjects, they are citizens. The monarch reigns but does not rule. .
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Your correct in wording re. immigration/ citenship laws etc. & also the Monarch bieng a figurehead compared to Govervment. But I was essentialy comparing it to US citizens who make up the majority of this forum & presume citizens have rights other than bieng able to abode in the country of there birth.

But in English law us Brit. citizens are still refered to as subjects. see below.

Wikpedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_subject

"Although the term "British subject" now has a very restrictive statutory definition, British citizens and others continue to be "subjects" of the Crown at common law. Accordingly, nationals of countries of which Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is Head of State may still be referred to as "Her Majesty's subjects", while British nationals (other than British protected persons) may accurately (if circuitously) be described as "subjects of Her Majesty in right of the United Kingdom".


Spiral
 
I didn't intend any insult to your nationality Spiral. I just wanted to point out that its a shame your rights are eroding so quickly over there.
 
No insult taken Andy, I agree with you.

my rights are dimenishing year buy year whether I am called a subject or a citizen.

Shame realy.

Spiral
 
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