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To: Cboldt
Asked and answered.

Not by this, no.

If you are citizen whose citizenship does not depend on a statute, then you are a natural born citizen.

The same statute that makes Ted Cruz a natural-born citizen starts out by saying that all people born in the U.S. are citizens at birth. So by your own definition we're all naturalized.

There is plenty of case law dealing with citizenship outside of statute, and in the US, that boils down to jus soli.

Not hardly.

118 posted on 01/11/2016 6:30:53 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg
-- The same statute that makes Ted Cruz a natural-born citizen starts out by saying that all people born in the U.S. are citizens at birth. So by your own definition we're all naturalized. --

I take back my remark about you being an intelligent person. Well, maybe you are, but if so, you are not honest in argument on this point.

You even quoted me where I said "If you are citizen whose citizenship does not depend on a statute, then you are a natural born citizen." That does not translate, at all, into "everybody's citizenship depends on a statute."

If 1401(a) didn't exist, the 14th amendment makes persons born in the US and subject to its jurisdiction, citizens of the US.

Or are you another one, like taxcontrol, who finds the constitution doesn't operate until Congress passes a statute that says what the constitution says?

130 posted on 01/11/2016 6:39:25 AM PST by Cboldt
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