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To: editor-surveyor

Actually, the US vs Wong Kim Ark supports the opposite. The court ruled that determining the citizenship was up to English common law because the Constitution did not offer it. And under English common law, there were only 3 ways that a person born in England would not be a citizen of England:

Born to foreign diplomats
Born on foreign ships
Born to parents who were citizens of a nation that was at war with England

There is nothing about having two parents be citizens for their child to be natural born. And the Courts ruling actually further stated that even though his parents were foreigners, Ark was a US citizen.


80 posted on 07/16/2011 8:39:10 PM PDT by Raider Sam (They're on our left, right, front, and back. They aint gettin away this time!)
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To: Raider Sam

>> “Actually, the US vs Wong Kim Ark supports the opposite” <<

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No, it was not. Here is the exact wording from WKA:

“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.”

That wording was copied from Minor v Happersett.

Two citizen parents was the standard of the time.


86 posted on 07/16/2011 8:50:32 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Going 'EGYPT' - 2012!)
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To: Raider Sam

Anchor babies born to illegal aliens are “citizens” too. Are those offspring eligible to attain the Presidency? A Natural Born Citizen is one that is born of two American Citizens. No. Divided. Loyalties. It really is that simple.


96 posted on 07/16/2011 9:18:23 PM PDT by Flotsam_Jetsome (If not you, who? If not now, when?)
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