Sentences with phrase «specificity about citizenship»

So, even if modern U.S. adoption laws have specificity about citizenship or species, this would almost certainly have been absent from the laws in force at the time.

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What is more, the post-Enlightenment knack of reducing Christianity itself to vague, generic qualities hardly distinguishable from gentle manners or sound citizenship (about which more below) yielded a foundational notion of Christianity — an «essence,» it was often called — so insubstantial that it could hardly sustain any specificities or provoke any controversy at all.