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To: Mr Rogers

It stated who was without a doubt a natural-born citizen and expressed doubt as to the *citizenship* of anyone not born in the country of two citizen parents, Mr. Rogers. Read what the words actually say, not what you want them to mean.


1,535 posted on 03/16/2013 12:38:21 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry

Read like an adult, for a change:

Additions might always be made to the citizenship of the United States in two ways: first, by birth, and second, by naturalization. This is apparent from the Constitution itself, for it provides [n6] that “no person except a natural-born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of the Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President,” [n7] and that Congress shall have power “to establish a uniform rule of naturalization.” Thus new citizens may be born or they may be created by naturalization.

The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners. Some authorities go further and include as citizens children born within the jurisdiction without reference to the citizenship of their [p168] parents. As to this class there have been doubts, but never as to the first. For the purposes of this case it is not necessary to solve these doubts. It is sufficient for everything we have now to consider that all children born of citizen parents within the jurisdiction are themselves citizens. The words “all children” are certainly as comprehensive, when used in this connection, as “all persons,” and if females are included in the last they must be in the first. That they are included in the last is not denied. In fact the whole argument of the plaintiffs proceeds upon that idea.”

Only in Birther Bizarro World does an opinion change what it is talking about a dozen times in one paragraph.

“It is sufficient for everything we have now to consider that all children born of citizen parents within the jurisdiction are themselves citizens.”

Oh no! You need citizen parents to be a citizen!

Nope. The meaning didn’t change from the front of a sentence to the rear. He wasn’t discussing 12 types of citizenship.


1,536 posted on 03/16/2013 1:09:20 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (America is becoming California, and California is becoming Detroit. Detroit is already hell.)
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