Too bad we couldn’t get a company that has a job posting that requires you to be a natural born citizen in order to apply! Thhen a person that has 1 US parent and 1 foreign parent applies for this position. The company then denies that applicant on grounds that they are not natural born. The applicant then sues the company stating they are natural born and a judge would need to decide this case to determine if this person is or is not a natural born?
What do you think? hahaha
My head is just spinning with ideas cause this is so darn frustrating!
That’s what the case was about today, trying to get a judge to state just what one is....Even though he said the guy didn’t have a case, he removed the “prejudice” the lower court ruled and gave a fairly good explanation of the three terms.
2 In any case, the Supreme Court long has rejected the notion that naturalized citizens may or should possess rights different from those of other citizens under the law:
We start from the premise that the rights of citizenship of the native born and of the naturalized person are of the same dignity and arecoextensive. The only difference drawn by the Constitution is that only the“natural born” citizen is eligible to be President. Art. II, § 1.
While the rights of citizenship of the native born derive from §1 of the Fourteenth Amendment and the rights of the naturalized citizen derive from satisfying, free of fraud, the requirements set by Congress, the latter, apart from the exception noted, “becomes a member of the society, possessing all the rights of a native citizen,
and standing, in the view of the constitution, on the footing of a native. The constitution does not authorize Congress to enlarge or abridge those rights.
The simple power of the national Legislature, is to prescribe a uniform rule of naturalization, and the exercise of this power exhausts it, so far as respects the individual.”
Schneider v. Rusk, 377 U.S. 163, 165-66 (1964) (quoting Osborn v. Bank of U.S.,22 U.S. (9 Wheat.) 738, 827 (1824)); see also Osborn, 22 U.S. (9 Wheat.) at 827-
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“[The naturalized citizen] is distinguishable in nothing from a native citizen, except so far as the constitution makes the distinction. The law makes none.”).