[patlin]

I do not understand what your point is here. It was always understood, from the time of the adoption, of the Constitution that state citizenship & federal citizenship were not one in the same. I am completely familiar of the Slaughterhouse case and it upheld the 1866 Act & the 14th regarding slaves, not foreign nationals.

Are you trying to insinuate that the court meant for word State to also mean foreign nation?

What I put forth was the LAW, not a court decision. There was no such thing as dual citizenship/dual nationality. Therefore according to US law, the only way to be a natural born citizen was to be born to 2 US citizen parents.

Sorry if this concept is too hard for you to understand, but it was the law and it was the definition for A2 qualification that was adopted & ratified in the constitution.

[djf]

Listen, noob, your post at 9 says there is no such thing as dual citizenship.

You sound like you are having trouble understanding a lot of things...

Now you seem??? to be saying there is, (or at one time might have been) dual citizenship.

Until you get around to clearing your head out and stating a consistent position, well, I got better things to do...