“Don’t practice law without a license champ. Since the Supreme Court decided U.S. v Wong Kim Ark in 1898, the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution has been interpreted as conferring citizenship on anyone born in the U.S. Who are legally present in the U.S. Regardless of their parents’ citizenship status. The 14th amendment trumps the naturalization act, which by the way, has been amended many times now.
Get over it. You’re not a lawyer. Focus on the real issues of the lousy economy and Obama’s failure as a president...”
Amen! It is crystal clear to anyone who has even a vague understanding of the law that the Wong Kim decision makes anyone born in the US a citizen at birth.
There is no NBC v. citizen-by-birth-in-the-US distinction. And there is no official document that makes such a distinction.
There is 0, none, zero, nada mention in the Constitution requiring both parents to be citizens of the US to be a NBC elligible to be president. What we have is Article 2, the 14th Amendment, Wong Kim Ark, and the US code defining citizenship pursuant to powers granted to Congress in Article 1. The Supremacy Clause says these count and Vatel or whoever doesn’t. End of story.
Don’t slander Vattel. He never wrote about natural born citizens. Birthers take his quote out of context, mis-translate it, and then pretend he supports their ridiculous claims.
Vattel was innocent. Birthers are not.