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To: Danae
"Sorry that case was not even decided in a circuit court and I fully expect it to be overturned should it be appealed. 200 years of case law goes against it."

When it actually is overturned, then come back and let us know. I the meantime, it demonstrates what I intended it to demonstrate... that real judges in real court rooms deciding real cases consider Wong Kim Ark to be "good law."

And they consider "natural born citizen" to be the same as English common law has insisted for a half millennium at this point. Born on US soil. Full stop.

As an aside, six of the current Supreme Court Justices have also favorably cited WKA in rulings before the court. So I wouldn't hold your breath on this Supreme Court overturning WKA itself anytime soon

Oh, and one more thing. You write:

"So if I were you I would not be resting your case on a decidedly erroneous ruling by an ignorant judge in Indiana!

Actually, it was panel of three judges that issued that decision. So if they are "ignorant" it sucks to be a Birther, as that ignorance is pandemic among American jurists. And they are the ones whose opinion really matter.
510 posted on 02/13/2010 10:31:23 PM PST by EnderWiggins
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To: EnderWiggins

Panel of three one dissented if I remember correctly. Regardless, WKA made the differentiation between Citizen and Natural Born citizen, but did not define Natural Born Citizen.

You can talk yourself up a wall tillyou are blue in the face. You are still wrong.

There is a difference between Natural Born Citizen and Citizen.

A citizen can have claim by a number of foreign powers.

A Natural Born Citizen ONLY has that of one Nation, in our case the United States.

Sorry bud, your logic not only fails it fails spectacularly.

A Natural Born citizen is always a citizen. A citizen is NOT always a natural born citizen.

Back to school for you.


524 posted on 02/14/2010 8:38:24 AM PST by Danae (Don't like our Constitution? Try living in a country with out one.)
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