REBIRTH

Rebirth is an analogy to conception and an identification of a newborn.

Kant writes:

"As natives of a country, those who constitute a nation can be looked upon analogously to descendants of the same ancestors (congeniti) even though they are not. Yet in an intellectual sense and from the perspective of rights, since they are born of the same mother (the republic) they constitute as it were one family (gens, natio), whose members (citizens of the state) are of equally high birth." (Text)/(AA VI:343)

Human being

A human being is the product of a conception.

Conception concists of two parts.

1. Fertilization: The sperm of the genetic father fertilizes the egg of the genetic mother.
2. Implantation: The fertilized egg implants.

When the fertilized egg implants, the mother who implants the fertilized egg becomes natural guardian and the fertilized egg becomes a human being.

Citizen

A citizen is the product of a rebirth.

Rebirth concists of two parts.

1. Request: Someone sends a request for parental authority over a newborn to the civil registration.
2. Approval: The civil registration approves someone's request for parental authority over a newborn

When the civil registration approves someone's request for parental authority over a newborn, someone becomes parental authority and the newborn becomes a citizen.

A citizen is a human being with nationality.

Nationality

Nationality is inherited from the natural guardian.

The mother who implants the fertilized egg is the natural guardian. Even if the mother who implants the fertilized egg has no genetic relation to the fertilized egg.

After the birth and before the rebirth, the natural guardian can give the natural guardianship to either the genetic father or the genetic mother. The recipient must give consent.

If the natural guardian has given the natural guardianship to either the genetic father or the genetic mother, then either the genetic father or the genetic mother is the natural guardian.

A genetic relation is established by DNA testing. Marriage is no guarantee for a genetic relation.

Parental authority

Parental authority is granted by the civil registration shortly efter the birth.

Shortly after the birth, someone must send a request for parental authority over the newborn to the civil registration.

The request must be sent to the civil registration where the newborn's natural guardian lives.

• If the natural guardian does not acknowledge a partner and the natural guardian requests parental authority, the newborn inherits the nationality of the natural guardian and only the natural guardian is granted parental authority.
• If the natural guardian does acknowledge a partner and both the natural guardian and the partner request parental authority, the newborn inherits the nationality of the natural guardian and both the natural guardian and the partner are granted parental authority.
• If the natural guardian does acknowledge a partner and only the natural guardian requests parental authority, the newborn inherits the nationality of the natural guardian and only the natural guardian is granted parental authority.
• If the natural guardian does acknowledge a partner and only the partner requests parental authority, the newborn inherits the nationality of the natural guardian and only the partner is granted parental authority.
• If the natural guardian does not acknowledge a partner and the natural guardian does not request parental authority, or if the natural guardian does acknowledge a partner and neither the natural guardian nor the partner request parental authority, the newborn inherits the nationality of the natural guardian and an adopter or adoptive couple is granted parental authority. Adoption is a matter of national sovereignty.