[freedumb2003]

>>Rep. Bingham said “parents.” He did not say “one parent” or “a mother or father.”<<

1) Commentary isn’t Law

2) You make a difference without a distinction

3) I gather you renew your statement (unsupported by any known law) that only second generation Americans are “Natural Born Citizens?”

4) “In the United States House on March 9, 1866
commenting upon Section 1992 of the Civil Rights Act,”

Huh? I assume this is a typo but I can’t determine what the comment date was or what was being commented upon.

[so_real]

1) Commentary isn’t Law

The Constitution is law; it is the Supreme Law of the Land. Bingham said his definition of natural born citizen is "declaratory of what is written in the Constitution". That means it is declared in the Law. Bingham was a lawyer and a district attorney. He served as the judge advocate in the Lincoln assassination trial, and served as prosecutor in the Johnson impeachment trial. He knew a thing or two about the law. His belief up-to-and-including the year 1866 was that a natural born citizen status was conveyed to the product of citizen parents born in country ... because this is what is declared in the Constitution. Do you have a definition that that pre-dates Bingham's by a more reputable source that says otherwise?