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To: SatinDoll

A child born in Mexico of a Mexican-citizen parent and a US-citizen parent is a natural born US-citizen regardless of the laws of Mexico. IF Mexico doesn’t recognize dual-citizens that is Mexico’s problem. It takes a lot to renounce US citizenship and the US has no problem with dual-citizenship.

With regard to a consular report, this can be used as definitive evidence by a person whose parents obtained the same for their child. But, it is not necessary. See Justice Thomas discussion of the matter of the power of Congress to regulate the condition of persons born overseas to U.S. citizen parents in his opinion in the 2012 Zivotofsky v. Clinton case.


59 posted on 02/21/2016 10:36:45 AM PST by Redmen4ever
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To: Redmen4ever
You seem to use 'Citizen' and 'natural born Citizen' as if they were the same thing. There is a difference.

Note the reference to Natural Law in the first sentence of our Declaration of Independence.

It is crystal clear that the Founding Fathers used the Natural Law definition of 'natural born Citizen' when they wrote Article II. By invoking "The Laws of Nature and Nature's God" the 56 signers of the Declaration incorporated a legal standard of freedom into the forms of government that would follow.

President John Quincy Adams, writing in 1839, looked back at the founding period and recognized the true meaning of the Declaration's reliance on the "Laws of Nature and of Nature's God." He observed that the American people's "charter was the Declaration of Independence. Their rights, the natural rights of mankind. Their government, such as should be instituted by the people, under the solemn mutual pledges of perpetual union, founded on the self-evident truth's proclaimed in the Declaration."

The Constitution, Vattel, and “Natural Born Citizen”: What Our Framers Knew

The Laws of Nature and of Nature's God: The True Foundation of American Law

The Supreme Court of the United States has never applied the term “natural born citizen” to any other category than “those born in the country of parents who are citizens thereof”.

MINOR V. HAPPERSETT IS BINDING PRECEDENT AS TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL DEFINITION OF A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN.

Neither the 14th Amendment nor Wong Kim Ark make one a Natural Born Citizen

The Harvard Law Review Article Taken Apart Piece by Piece and Utterly Destroyed

Citizenship Terms Used in the U.S. Constitution - The 5 Terms Defined & Some Legal Reference to Same

"The citizenship of no man could be previous to the declaration of independence, and, as a natural right, belongs to none but those who have been born of citizens since the 4th of July, 1776."....David Ramsay, 1789.

A Dissertation on Manner of Acquiring Character & Privileges of Citizen of U.S.-by David Ramsay-1789

The Law of Nations or the Principles of Natural Law (1758)

The Laws of Nature and of Nature's God: The True Foundation of American Law

Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Volume 20 - Use of The Law of Nations by the Constitutional Convention

60 posted on 02/21/2016 10:41:36 AM PST by Godebert
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To: Redmen4ever

My friend was born, in Mexico, during the 1950s. She did not have dual citizenship. She was Mexican until she naturalized as a U.S. citizen in the 1970s.


65 posted on 02/21/2016 12:07:04 PM PST by SatinDoll (A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN IS BORN IN THE USA OF TWO USA CITIZENS)
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