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To: ought-six; Oldeconomybuyer

http://judiciary.house.gov/legacy/6042.htm

Senator Jacob Howard, the author of the citizenship clause in the Fourteenth Amendment, defined who would fall within the “jurisdiction of the United States”:

[E]very person born within the limits of the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the United States. This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons. It settles the great question of citizenship and removes all doubt as to what persons are or are not citizens of the United States. This has long been a great desideratum in the jurisprudence and legislation of this country.


20 posted on 08/21/2010 8:33:26 AM PDT by WSGilcrest (I'm just sayin'...)
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To: WSGilcrest; ought-six; Oldeconomybuyer
http://rs6.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=015/llsl015.db&recNum=256

Companion to the Fourteenth Amendment the Expatriation Act of 1868 was passed on July 27th, 1868 just 18 days after the ratification of the 14th Amendment (July 9, 1868):

Whereas the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent right of all people, indispensable to the enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; and whereas in the recognition of this principle, this government has freely received emigrants from all nations, and invested them with the rights of citizenship; and whereas it is claimed that such American citizens, with their descendants, are subjects of foreign states, owing allegiance to the governments thereof<.u>; and whereas it is necessary to the maintenance of public peace that this claim of foreign allegiance should be promptly and finally disavowed; Therefore,

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any declaration, instruction, opinion, order, or decision of any officers of this government which denies, restricts, impairs, or questions the right of expatriation, is hereby declared inconsistent with the fundamental principles of this government.

We don't need any new bureaucracy, all they need to do is go back to the original way births were handled. If you were born to American citizens, then you get a birth certificate. If you are born to aliens, legal or illegal, you get a receipt of birth which you take to the ministry of your country to file where you fill out papers for a certificate of birth from the country of the parents.

easy as pie. it was how it had been done for decades.

21 posted on 08/21/2010 8:58:18 AM PDT by patlin (Ignorance is Bliss for those who choose to wear rose colored glasses)
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