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To: donmeaker

oh pfft you again!
NBC is defined in Minor v. Happersett by terms and by exclusion...it holds it cannot be a 14th amendment US Citizen

is this in any way unclear?

a natural born citizen has NO OTHER NATION-TIES AT BIRTH
NBCs are pure Americans with NO other nation ties by birthplace or parentage than American


11 posted on 02/22/2010 12:32:12 AM PST by capacommie
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To: capacommie

Thanks for the reference. ‘Minor’ does not say what you said it says. Further, laws defining citizenship have been changed since that, making the precedent null.

“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 [88 U.S. 162, 168] parents.”

Still, under my reading, there is no separate category of 14th Amendment citizen, US citizen born to US parents abroad, and the like. There are only 3 categories, naturalized, natural born, and non-citizen.


15 posted on 02/22/2010 1:04:33 AM PST by donmeaker (Invicto)
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