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To: Ha Ha Thats Very Logical

What are the prerogatives of citizenship?
Do children have any specific rights of citizenship? They have no rights in court, no ownership rights, are not able to work, cannot open a bank account, cannot marry, cannot serve in the military and on and on. By law children are wards. They have no rights of citizenship. They are not recognized as citizens until they reach an age of consent. This varies state to state but is generally reecognized as 18.
Technically a child born of a child can never achieve citizenship because they are not born of a citizen. This hole in the law is routinely ignored as impractical. It is nevertheless the case that for the highest office in the land there should be no shadow on citizenship. Obama’s citizenship is not clouded. It is nonexistent.


145 posted on 01/05/2013 2:14:44 PM PST by Louis Foxwell (Better the devil we can destroy than the Judas we must tolerate.)
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To: Louis Foxwell
Do children have any specific rights of citizenship? They have no rights in court, no ownership rights, are not able to work, cannot open a bank account, cannot marry, cannot serve in the military and on and on.

So what? That doesn't mean they're not citizens. Gay people cannot marry in most places and until recently couldn't serve in the military--that doesn't mean they aren't citizens. And what do you mean by "no ownership rights"? My son's Xbox isn't really his, even though he bought it with his own money?

Technically a child born of a child can never achieve citizenship because they are not born of a citizen.

Like I said, do you have any support in law or precedence for that idea?

146 posted on 01/05/2013 3:54:45 PM PST by Ha Ha Thats Very Logical
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