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To: Ancesthntr; RobinOfKingston
There is no wording within the Constitution that differentiates category 2 from category 3.

It is a given that the undefined terms in the Constitution are defined in the English Common Law

"The first and most obvious division of the people is into aliens and natural-born subjects. Natural-born subjects are such as are born within the dominions of the crown of England, ... and aliens, such as are born out of it. "

- Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England

So apparently English Common Law doesn't differentiate between category 2 and 3 either.

Blackstone also says this:

"The children of aliens, born here in England, are, generally speaking, natural-born subjects, and entitled to all the privileges of such. In which the constitution of France differs from ours; for there, by their jus albinatus, if a child be born of foreign parents, it is an alien."

109 posted on 04/27/2012 10:26:46 AM PDT by wideminded
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To: wideminded

” a child be born of foreign parents, it is an alien”
Anchor babies aside, that defintion fits precisely with our law saying a person (such as John McCain) born in another country to US citizen parents, is a NBC of the USA. It can not be both ways, one born is either a citizen of the country born in or not decible by parentage.


115 posted on 04/27/2012 10:40:37 AM PDT by X-spurt (Its time for ON YOUR FEET or on your knees)
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