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To: editor-surveyor

“The 14th ammendment says that the parents have to be here legally, and not immune to our laws.”
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Are you saying that the requirement for US citizenship in the 14th amendment was for parents to be here legally? That was certainly not the case for many slaves at that time, who became citizens, right?

Now NBC and BO are a whole other matter. Or even whether BO is a citizen at all, if born in Kenya, based on the prevailing statute of the time.


7,594 posted on 08/06/2009 2:19:50 PM PDT by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Church, Country & the Tea Party! Take America Back! (Objective media? Try BIGOTS.))
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To: SeattleBruce
"Are you saying that the requirement for US citizenship in the 14th amendment was for parents to be here legally? That was certainly not the case for many slaves at that time, who became citizens, right?"

By the time that the 14th was enacted, there were not likely any significant number of slaves whose parents had not been brought in legally. And I doubt that the writers of the ammendment were viewing anything like the issue we are. They were just trying to create voters out of non-voters.

7,606 posted on 08/06/2009 2:31:22 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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