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To: philman_36

"In Minor, written only six years after the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified, the Court observed that:"

"The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens..[skip]...For the purposes of this case it is not necessary to solve these doubts."

"Id. at 167-168. Thus, the Court left open the issue of whether a person who is born within the United States of alien parents is considered a natural born citizen.12"

Footnote 12 that you reference only states the obvious that in Minor, the Court didn't even consider the case of a child with one citizen parent.

183 posted on 02/10/2012 2:57:46 PM PST by 4Zoltan
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To: 4Zoltan
Footnote 12 that you reference only states the obvious that in Minor, the Court didn't even consider the case of a child with one citizen parent.
They didn't have to. There were naturalization laws that already covered the child born of an alien, whether it be one or two of them at question.
I can't help it if the Ankeny court deliberately got it wrong simply for political reasons. It's been done before. Or didn't you know that?

Did the Ankeny court state that Wong Kim Ark was a natural born citizen?

186 posted on 02/10/2012 3:43:11 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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