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To: Kansas58; SatinDoll
You would be laughed out of any court room

We already covered that. The US courts are either liars mostly by omission and by misconstruction. It is no wonder why.

Your error is that the 14th Amendment naturalizes or in other words, it makes citizens by statute at birth.

86 posted on 09/14/2012 9:20:56 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: Red Steel

Wrong.
If you are a Citizen under the 14 Amendment, you are a Natural Born Citizen.


112 posted on 09/15/2012 6:41:02 AM PDT by Kansas58
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To: Red Steel
Replying to Kansas 58, Red Steel said:

Your error is that the 14th Amendment naturalizes or in other words, it makes citizens by statute at birth.

Many people do not comprehend the fact that the 14th Amendment was created to specifically overturn the Dred Scott v Sandford decision which denied citizenship to slaves. The authors of the 14th weren't arguing that the Supreme Court had decided the case incorrectly. Indeed, the 14th amendment was created precisely because many people felt the court had decided the case exactly in accordance with the existing law, and therefore the law had to be specifically changed.

Thus the 14th amendment was needed to give former slaves a pathway to citizenship because due to Dred Scott v Sanford, they had no existing legal path to becoming citizens.

To argue that the 14th made them "natural" citizens, after the fact, is just idiocy, the like of which I would expect from Kansas58, but not from any sensible person.

136 posted on 09/15/2012 12:10:31 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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