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To: spintreebob

“The 14th Amendment is also very clear that a person born in the US is automatically a natural born citizen.”

Very clear? Hardly. The first sentence of Sec. 1 is the epitome of ambiguity. Courts have been fighting over it for years. Congress doesn’t have a clue. The President inhales deeply and says, “Fourteenth what, man?? Oh yeah, that....uh


27 posted on 07/25/2015 11:56:34 AM PDT by beelzepug (liberalism is not...a political philosophy. It is a stage of arrested emotional development.)
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To: beelzepug

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.

The above language is clear with no ambiguity. Anchor babies are citizens. It is very clear. “Subject to the jurisdiction thereof” clearly and with no ambiguity, refers to those born to the diplomatic corps of other nations. They are the only people not subject to the jurisdiction.


28 posted on 07/25/2015 2:51:36 PM PDT by spintreebob
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