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To: Conscience of a Conservative
It's nice to come across someone so much more intelligent and worldly than the founders of America. You assert the opposite of what the framers sought to accomplish and want us to shut up and step aside for your little squirrel messiah ... and your spittle is an insult to what the framers sought: "You are either an American citizen, or you are not an American citizen. Whether you also hold citizenship in another country does not matter." 'conscience of a conservative What absolute sh!t in a bucket!

You agitprops are certainly bold with your deceits and assertions. At least you don't suffer from 'divided loyalties' to the Constitution.

99 posted on 12/08/2008 10:04:42 AM PST by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: MHGinTN
I never claimed to be "much more intelligent and worldly than the founders of America" - that is an absurd suggestion. My comments on dual citizenship were not "agitprop," but rather an accurate statement of the law regarding dual citizenship. United States law does not - I repeat, does not - explicitly recognize the concept of dual citizenship. A U.S. citizen may be born as a citizen of another country as well, or may become a citizen of another country, without any effect on their U.S. citizenship. The only time a U.S. citizen's foreign citizenship status has any effect on their U.S. citizenship is if they apply for foreign citizenship with the intention to give up U.S. citizenship.

From the State Department webpage:

A U.S. citizen may acquire foreign citizenship by marriage, or a person naturalized as a U.S. citizen may not lose the citizenship of the country of birth.U.S. law does not mention dual nationality or require a person to choose one citizenship or another. Also, a person who is automatically granted another citizenship does not risk losing U.S. citizenship. However, a person who acquires a foreign citizenship by applying for it may lose U.S. citizenship. In order to lose U.S. citizenship, the law requires that the person must apply for the foreign citizenship voluntarily, by free choice, and with the intention to give up U.S. citizenship.

Before you go accusing me of "agitprop" and of being against the Constitution, maybe you should look and see if the comments to which you are responding are accurate. If my comment was "agitprop," wouldn't that make the State department's remarks "agitprop" as well.

100 posted on 12/08/2008 10:25:50 AM PST by Conscience of a Conservative
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