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To: exit82
-- The Court was split 5-4 (sound familiar?) --

Yeah, sure does. But the split was over the constitutionality of residency limits in order to maintain the status of US citizenship. There was no split on the question of whether citizenship was acquired solely by statute. All 9 found that the appellant was naturalized, even though his citizenship attached at birth by operation of the statute, and even though appellant had not gone through a naturalization process.

137 posted on 01/09/2016 5:34:33 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt

You are correct.

I found it interesting that the split on the constitutional question was so marked.

The law is not an exact science.


139 posted on 01/09/2016 5:37:33 AM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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