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By Wong, it just takes jus soli, and the parents not being Indians or ambassadors or invaders.

TO be a Citizen at Birth, read the last paragraph of the majority opinion, which says nothing about "natural born"

Per WKA, there are only 2 kinds of citizens-—natural born and naturalized.

Not quite what it says. It says:

The Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution,
...
contemplates two sources of citizenship, and two only: birth and naturalization.

The 14th amendment, not the Constitution as a whole. Besides, birth is the source of Natural Born status as well, just with an aditional requirement at the time of that birth.

But the WKA majority opinon, in a quote and citation to a work by Mr. Binney, in the second edition of a paper from 1853, on the "Alienigenae of the United States" also indicates a distintion between a citizen at birth from a alien parent, and the "natural born child of a citizen".

The child of an alien, if born in the country, is as much a citizen as the natural born child of a citizen

So, they have the same rights, but they are not the same, but only for purposes of Presidential eligiblity, and becoming President is hardly a right. If it were, it could also not be denied to naturalized citizens, since they too are "every much a citizen" as a citizen at birth. Nor could residency requirements be placed upon them for eligibility for Senator and Representative, nor could states have such residency requirements for their offices. Not what a citation and quote from that majority opinion idicates:

1,079 posted on 02/25/2010 6:41:56 PM PST by El Gato ("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)

Here, digest this while I go back to WKA. Persuasive state case only, but they must have my mind....

http://www.in.gov/judiciary/opinions/pdf/11120903.ebb.pdf

parsy, who says skip down to the Natural Born Citizen part

1,082 posted on 02/25/2010 6:45:03 PM PST by parsifal (Abatis: Rubbish in front of a fort, to prevent the rubbish outside from molesting the rubbish inside)

Here, digest this while I go back to WKA. Persuasive state case only, but they must have my mind....

http://www.in.gov/judiciary/opinions/pdf/11120903.ebb.pdf

parsy, who says skip down to the Natural Born Citizen part

1,083 posted on 02/25/2010 6:45:04 PM PST by parsifal (Abatis: Rubbish in front of a fort, to prevent the rubbish outside from molesting the rubbish inside)

Here, digest this while I go back to WKA. Persuasive state case only, but they must have my mind....

http://www.in.gov/judiciary/opinions/pdf/11120903.ebb.pdf

parsy, who says skip down to the Natural Born Citizen part

1,084 posted on 02/25/2010 6:45:06 PM PST by parsifal (Abatis: Rubbish in front of a fort, to prevent the rubbish outside from molesting the rubbish inside)

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