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To: PugetSoundSoldier
Where does the Act you cite address children born overseas? The 1795 Act deals only with naturalization of aliens.

Once again, the Naturalization Act of 1790 was partly unconstitutional that Congress realized their mistake and repealed it 5 years later. They could not change the meaning and intent of the US Constitution by statute.

If you are born to US citizens, you’re a US natural born citizen regardless of the locale of your birth. That’s what the Framer’s explicitly said, that’s what we should do.

No, not if the birth child received foreign citizenship from his birth country. De Vattel's definition is the meaning and intent behind the US Constitution NBC clause.

71 posted on 03/11/2010 1:23:20 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: Red Steel
Once again, the Naturalization Act of 1790 was partly unconstitutional that Congress realized their mistake and repealed it 5 years later. They could not change the meaning and intent of the US Constitution by statute.

I see. So your contention is that the men who wrote the Constitution screwed up when they enacted the Statute as it contradicted what they wrote in the Constitution, and thus changed it.

Can you tell me where in the Constitution it defines what a Natural Born Citizen is? Use the Constitution only, please.

74 posted on 03/11/2010 1:27:58 PM PST by PugetSoundSoldier (Indignation over the Sting of Truth is the defense of the indefensible)
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