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To: Non-Sequitur
Agreed. Show me where the Constitution defines natural-born citizen.

Show were it defines "speech" or "press".

I wouldn't agree with that. I think there are several cases which clarify the question.

Only in dicta. Ms. Elg was declared to be natural born, both her parents were naturalized citizens at the time of her birth, but that was not necessary to the conclusion of the case, that being that she was a US citizen. In "Wong Kim Ark", the term "natural born child of a citizen" was used in contrast to child of an alien born in the US, in Justice Grey's quote of Binny, but that too was not necessary to the conclusion of the case.

618 posted on 01/08/2010 3:42:04 PM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: El Gato
“Agreed. Show me where the Constitution defines natural-born citizen.

Show were it defines “speech” or “press”.”

Just curious as to what your point is. The Constitution doesn't define “speech.” Where what constitutes “speech” is not self-evident, there is a body of law and considered opinion outside the Constitution that defines what is protected and what is not.

620 posted on 01/08/2010 3:54:35 PM PST by tired_old_conservative
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