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To: allmendream
Can you show me ANY US law where it is stated that any citizen at birth doesn't qualify as a natural born citizen?

What part of "The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that." do you not understand?? U.S. law doesn't define what it means to be a natural born citizen. The Supreme Court told us what the definition is: " ... all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens ..."

The Constitution AND statutory law gives us several types of at birth citizens that don't fit this definition. The 14th amendment doesn't contain a requirement of being born to citizen parents. Statutory law allows the children of unwed mothers, for example, to be citizens at birth, even when born out of the country. Do you understand how neither meets either the requirement of being born in the country or of being born to citizen parents??

88 posted on 09/21/2010 2:16:23 PM PDT by edge919
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To: edge919
Wow did you ever butcher up that quote, because the tail end didn't support your contention! Amusing that you chose to leave off the part of the quote that destroys your argument that the Supreme Court gave the definitive definition you wanted it to.

“The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens,as distinguished from aliens or foreigners. Some authorities go further and include as citizens children born within the jurisdiction without reference to the citizenship of their parents. As to this class there have been doubts, but never as to the first.”

Doubts is not the same as a definitive ruling, no wonder you had to butcher the quote to try to get it to say what you wanted it to say!

91 posted on 09/21/2010 2:45:12 PM PDT by allmendream (Income is EARNED not distributed. So how could it be re-distributed?)
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