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To: allmendream
There are no subjects in this country, there are citizens. A variety of citizens. You'll not be able to demonstrate a relative finding in Wong Kim Ark or any other, dealing with natural born subjects, or subjects of any kind, because that is a legal status that does not exist in the United States. In fact, a war was fought, with a monarchy, to establish the United States, and any shred of the monarchical system was flatly rejected.
71 posted on 09/21/2009 3:05:55 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry
Please read post #13. Denofrio mangles the quote, leaves off the relevant passage of “and if he hath issue here that issue is a natural born subject” and apparently switches out “subject” with “citizen”.

We are all “subject” to the jurisdiction of the United States of America; we prefer the term “citizen”, but the use of the term “subject” was not unknown; as the decision in Kim Wong Ark shows.

Here is the quote that Denofrio mangles in its original language, clearly it says that the child of a foreign national born here is a “natural born subject” of the United States.

“strong enough to make a natural subject, for if he hath issue here, that issue is a natural-born subject;” and his child, as said by Mr. Binney in his essay before quoted, “if born in the country, is as much a citizen as the natural-born child of a citizen, and by operation of the same principle.”

Now you are reduced to arguing that “natural born subject” somehow doesn’t mean “natural born citizen”.

76 posted on 09/21/2009 3:20:44 PM PDT by allmendream (Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be RE-distributed?)
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