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To: SoJoCo

See my post at 231. You are misquoting the opinion!


239 posted on 09/29/2011 2:10:54 PM PDT by NJ_Tom (I don't worship the State; I don't worship the Environment - I only worship God.)
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To: NJ_Tom
See my post at 231. You are misquoting the opinion!

No, I think you're misinterpreting what the Chief Justice is saying. Chief Justice Waite wrote, "At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also." He then noted that they were known as 'natural-born' citizens, distinguishing them from foreigners and the only other form of citizen; naturalized citizens. Nowhere does the Chief Justice define or imply a third class of citizenship, and in the quote in question he is clearly talking about natural-born citizens and those who define them one way as opposed to those who define them another.

But regardless, the Chief Justice is clearly not defining natural-born citizen as only those born in the U.S. of two citizen parents.

252 posted on 09/29/2011 2:36:03 PM PDT by SoJoCo
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