1) The legislation that generates polypatrids is founded on abstract, purely rational criteria —completely disconnected from reality. If one has a parent with a particular nationality, the child acquires that nationality, combined with the fact that being born in a place grants you nationality. The belief behind these legal criteria is that man is like a blank sheet of paper.
2) These abstract criteria are unfeasible, utopian, and empty, as they generate freedom without connection, laying the groundwork for a freedom that leads to nothing (a symptom of a liberal legal culture without Christ). As we live in a world increasingly without Christ, where marriages dissolve very easily, the issue of polypatrid does not necessarily equate to being nationnist, as many marriages are founded on interest, and dual nationality ends up becoming a kind of privilege. This creates a false nobility, where simply having a connection with these States is enough to be considered a citizen, regardless of whether you contribute positively to making these countries feel like home in Christ.
3) The issue of nationness implies two things: corpus + animus. It is not enough to be born in a place or have an ancestor born in a place — you need physical contact with the land, knowledge of its customs, its economic potential, and its people. Moreover, you need to learn the history of these countries so that you can inhabit them as if they were a single home — this implies participating in the political life of both places. To take them jointly as a single home in Christ requires the will to have dual nationality — and for this, you need to have assets and a presence distributed in these two places so that one can serve the other, through you and your family. This is a much more concrete and qualified basis than the abstract constitutional declaration that defines who does or does not have nationality.
4) Only those who take countries as a home in Christ, occupying them in a way that serves their fellow humans and prospers in those places, have the right to have connections with the lands they occupy. Therefore, no constitutional basis can be divorced from property rights.
5) If we look closely, the current nationality criteria lay the groundwork for the abolition of private property, as they deny everything that can result from owning a place. They abolish the notion of family and God. In short, they are true proto-socialist criteria, as they allow the State to be taken as if it were a religion, where everything is within the State, and nothing can exist outside it.
6) Finally, without tradition, without family, and without property, the beginning of the abolition of private property starts when defining who the national selves are—and this criterion currently exists in an abstract, pure form, without any concrete relation to reality.
José Octavio Dettmann
Rio de Janeiro, August 12th, 2015 (date of original posting).
Link to the original post:
https://blogdejoseoctaviodettmann.blogspot.com/2015/08/1-legislacao-que-gera-os-polipatridas-e.html
