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To: RummyChick

What about the 1898 case of United States v. Wong Kim Ark in which the Supreme Court of the United States decided that any person born in the United States is a citizen of the United States regardless of their parents’ citizenship?


5,034 posted on 08/03/2009 6:36:29 AM PDT by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: mamelukesabre

Right now, IMO, Elg is the case to look to..before Saturday I said it was the Wong case and they decimated the subject to the jurisdiction thereof clause...

but a poster brought up ELG and that is a later case.

And it is on point...even though I think it is an unintended consequence.

No one can say how a court would rule today.

Anyone here claiming to know what SCOTUS would do is out of their minds.

All you can do is guess...and we have one Freeper that says SCOTUS can’t interpret it and it would have to go to a Constitutional Convention...one we haven’t had since the first one.

I don’t buy into that argument.


5,049 posted on 08/03/2009 6:53:16 AM PDT by RummyChick
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