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To: Mr Rogers
No. It required the courts to examine English common law, because:

So you just ignore the point. Yup. Figured as much.

You simply cannot respond intelligently to the fact that Justice Waite specifically says that natural born citizenship isn't defined by the 14th amendment.

1,476 posted on 03/14/2013 11:04:08 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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To: DiogenesLamp

“Justice Waite specifically says that natural born citizenship isn’t defined by the 14th amendment”

And he was correct. It was defined by English common law at the time of Independence. That was the language of the law then.


1,479 posted on 03/14/2013 11:20:16 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (America is becoming California, and California is becoming Detroit. Detroit is already hell.)
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