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To: inquest
You have it almost but not quite right. Congress' powers to specify and to elucidate the exact boundaries of this "under the jurisdiction" clause are in the 14th amendment itself:

"Section 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
94 posted on 02/18/2004 10:15:03 PM PST by WOSG (Bush/Cheney 2004!!)
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To: WOSG
Maybe I should put my question in a different way: Does Congress have the power to deny citizenship to anyone who's had every honest reason to think of himself as a citizen his entire life? Myself or yourself, for example?

If not, how is the line drawn?

95 posted on 02/19/2004 8:15:30 AM PST by inquest (The only problem with partisanship is that it leads to bipartisanship)
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