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To: bushpilot2; rockrr; x
bushpilot2: "The Constitution gives Congress one citizenship power....keep America the same natural kind via naturalization."

First, I read all those dictionary posts the first time, there was no need for you to repeat them.

Second, you are only playing word definition games, and corrupt ones at that.
That's because no law, whether constitutionally approved or not, can make two different people any more or less related biologically.
They are what they are, regardless of the law.

What constitutional law can do is declare two different people, regardless of their biological inheritances, one Nation, Americans.

bushpilot2: "Congress never had the Constitutional power to unnaturalize the country.
The North went to war to establish UnNaturalization.
That’s exactly what happened.
That violated Article 1, Section 8."

That's total rubbish since what Congress or any other governing body can declare is only a political nationality, having nothing to do with blood-relatedness.

bushpilot2: "Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist Papers: 'American citizens have the same kindred blood' "

That was no more true in 1788 than it is today.
Even in 1788 American blood-ancestry included many different nations of Northern, Central, Eastern, Western & Southern Europe, as well as Western Asia, Central Africa and even some Native Americans.
Remember, George Washington's Revolutionary War army, by the time of Yorktown in 1781 was one-quarter black, men who'd been promised freedom in exchange for their military service.
And in some states freedmen were treated as full citizens.

Indeed, if you consider the number of half-black children born to slave-women and their white masters, then over several generations such people might well have more Northern-European blood-ancestry than, for example, recent immigrants from Southern Europe or Western Asia.

Point is: even in 1788 American citizens came from many different Nations and were only "kindred blood" in a political sense, not biological.

104 posted on 10/20/2017 1:22:17 PM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: BroJoeK

“We are one family, race, kindred, all here in the pursuit of happiness.” Gov. William Seward, 28 Sep, 1860

How could the Founders maintain same kindred citizens and immigrants? Article 1 Section 8. “Uniform rule of naturalization”.


109 posted on 10/21/2017 5:27:24 PM PDT by bushpilot2
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To: BroJoeK
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110 posted on 10/23/2017 11:44:21 AM PDT by bushpilot2
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