“Wong Kim petitioned the court as a NATIVE born citizen. The court agreed he was such, but the finding made the distinction between natural-born and native born.”
According the majority opinion in WKA, the language is based on English common law, and the Court quotes British jurist A.V. Dicey: “’Natural-born British subject’ means a British subject who has become a British subject at the moment of his birth.” Thus the distinction between native-born and natural-born is that natural-born also included citizens from birth who were not born in the U.S., such as John S. McCain III.
Exactly!
Why do some people insist on making the simple concept that natural-born citizenship is inherited from you parents
so
bloomin'
HARD!
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LOL!