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To: BenKenobi

If you read the amendment, you’ll see that it has two requirements for citizenship...born here AND under our jurisdiction. If all you had to do to become a citizen was be born here, why did they add the second requirement?


65 posted on 01/03/2011 9:23:25 PM PST by Imnidiot (THIS SPACE FOR RENT)
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To: Imnidiot

To account for military bases and embassies abroad. ‘Under our jurisdiction’.

Not all places under American jurisdiction are in the 50 states. A substantial number of people live in these areas.


66 posted on 01/03/2011 9:49:47 PM PST by BenKenobi (Rush speaks! I hear, I obey)
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