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To: Uncle Chip

Come on, do you seriously think “that may be born beyond sea, or out of the limits of the United States” means that provision also applies to children born inside the United States? Is that really how you read statutes, or just the ones where you’re trying to read it to say what you want it to say?

It certainly does extend jus sanguinis citizenship to children born outside the United States. Now where does it deny jus soli citizenship to children born inside the United States?


80 posted on 05/14/2010 9:47:01 AM PDT by The Pack Knight (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: The Pack Knight
Come on, do you seriously think “that may be born beyond sea, or out of the limits of the United States” means that provision also applies to children born inside the United States?

Are you going to tell us that it meant that only children of citizens born beyond the sea were to be considered natural born citizens???

It doesn't say "that are". It says "that may" which widens their definition from what it was to something more involving possibility, or chance. So then what was it before they added "that may ..."???

82 posted on 05/14/2010 10:06:35 AM PDT by Uncle Chip (TRUTH : Ignore it. Deride it. Allegorize it. Interpret it. But you can't ESCAPE it.)
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