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To: zeestephen

I understand that no court has found a distinction between “Natural Born Citizens” and “persons physically born in the USA.”

What I want know is if any court has explicitly ruled that these two things are identical?


To the best of my knowledge, no court has ever been asked to rule on that specific question.


641 posted on 11/15/2010 8:39:47 AM PST by jamese777
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To: jamese777; zeestephen

” I understand that no court has found a distinction between “Natural Born Citizens” and “persons physically born in the USA.” What I want know is if any court has explicitly ruled that these two things are identical?”

We should clarify that these would not be identical. Instead, what is identical (since these are merely equivalent legal terms of art) are ‘natural-born citizens’ and “citizens from time of birth”.

You could be a natural-born US citizen, even if born overseas, to US citizen parents, and the rights of citizenship in those cases is defined in US code.


648 posted on 11/15/2010 9:31:12 AM PST by WOSG (OPERATION RESTORE AMERICAN FREEDOM - NOVEMBER, 2010 - DO YOUR PART!)
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