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To: KarlInOhio

It HAS been clarified. The WKA decision is clear, which is why every case that has gone to judgment cited it and decided that anyone born in the USA is a NBC.

I think the only question that has never been clarified by the courts is if a person born abroad to two citizen parents is a NBC. State courts have said yes, but the Supreme Court hasn’t faced a case like that.


75 posted on 09/01/2012 8:11:05 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (Liberalism: "Ex faslo quodlibet" - from falseness, anything follows)
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To: Mr Rogers
It HAS been clarified. The WKA decision is clear, which is why every case that has gone to judgment cited it and decided that anyone born in the USA is a NBC.

Wong Kim Ark was determined to be a citizen. Period. There has been no USSC case that determined anyone born in the US to be natural born.

Either you're just making stuff up, or you want to trot out that strange, self-negating Ankheny case from a state court in Indiana, I take it? This warrants your use of the words "every case" as if there have been many all across the country, rather than one highly politicized, controversial case in a single state court?

You wouldn't be attempting to create the false impression of "settled law," here, would you, Mr. Rogers?

88 posted on 09/01/2012 8:43:13 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Mr Rogers
It HAS been clarified. The WKA decision is clear, which is why every case that has gone to judgment cited it and decided that anyone born in the USA is a NBC.

Wong Kim Ark does not use the term "NBC." Therefore it does not decide "NBC." (It wouldn't decide it anyway. Courts may not redefine existing constitutional terms. )

129 posted on 09/01/2012 12:25:08 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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