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To: Non-Sequitur

>>That position was repudiated by the Supreme Court in the Ark decision.<<

The answer lies not in the word “citizen” but the difference between “natural born” and “naturalized”

Can you quote the Ark case where it says he is a “Natural born” citizen?


97 posted on 08/26/2009 2:12:33 PM PDT by netmilsmom (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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To: netmilsmom
The answer lies not in the word “citizen” but the difference between “natural born” and “naturalized”

A distinction that was not raised in the Collins article that Donofrio is trumpeting. According to Collins, if your father was not a U.S. citizen then you don't qualify for any kind of citizenship, natural-born or otherwise. It was that position that the Ark case clearly repudiated.

But the Ark decision also ruled that children born in the U.S. are citizens at birth, a status clearly distinct from naturalized citizen. Since the Constitution identifies only two forms of citizenship then citizen by birth, citizen at birth, and natural-born citizen are all synonymous.

100 posted on 08/26/2009 2:17:58 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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