[little jeremiah]

ROCKLOBSTER knows the good stuff. I may be offline for a while. (heart doing funny things)

Minor vs Happersett

In 1875, Chief Justice Morisson Waite wrote the opinion of the court on a unanimous decision, containing the following definition:

>>...the court observed that “new citizens may be born or they may be created by naturalization” and that the Constitution “does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens.” Under the common law, according to the court, “it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners.<<

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