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To: allmendream

The Supreme Court created a “fourth” type of citizenship in U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark, when they made a distinction between natural-born citizens and 14th amendment “citizenship by birth.” The court said the 14th amendment does NOT define natural-born citizenship. The court cited NBCs as a separate class of citizens than those persons born on the soil without regard to the citizenship of the parents. The court affirmed that NBCs do NOT need the 14th amendment to become citizens AND they confirmed that citizenship by birth via the 14th amendment only applied to the children of resident aliens. It’s all there. Read it.


101 posted on 03/07/2013 9:18:09 PM PST by edge919
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To: edge919

Justices Scalia and Thomas would disagree with you on Wong. They cited from US v Wong Kim Ark in their ruling in Miller v Albright 523 US 420 (1998): “The Constitution contemplates two sources of citizenship and two only, birth and naturalization. Under the Fourteenth Amendment, “[e]very person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, becomes at once a citizen of the United States, and needs no naturalization.”
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/96-1060.ZC1.html
There is no member of the current court who believes that there is a distinction between a Citizen of the United States At Birth and a Natural Born Citizen.


106 posted on 03/08/2013 1:28:50 AM PST by Nero Germanicus
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To: edge919

McCain was not born in the USA or naturalized. How does the 14 th apply to McCain?


107 posted on 03/08/2013 6:24:08 AM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
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