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To: fightinJAG
If you read this article you can see that the "natural born citizen" part of this clause has been at issue a number of times...never more important than today.

I would think the Supreme Court would want to hear this case..but I fear that won't happen.

Here is another interesting excerpt:

As mentioned earlier, the Supreme Court had already tackled the meaning of the 14th amendment’s citizenship clause prior to Wong Kim Ark, and unlike the Kim Ark court, did consider the intent and meaning of the words by those who introduced the language of the clause. In the Slaughterhouse cases the court noted “[t]he phrase, ‘subject to its jurisdiction’ was intended to exclude from its operation children of ministers, consuls, and citizens or subjects of foreign States born within the United States.”

http://federalistblog.us/2006/12/us_v_wong_kim_ark_can_never_be_considered.html

69 posted on 12/06/2008 8:37:33 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

I’m going to check that out now.


75 posted on 12/06/2008 8:51:17 PM PST by fightinJAG (I love the Constitution.)
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