To: Publius6961
Do any legal types out there have a clue as to what court decision established that the children of the persons actually listed could claim citizenship?
Although, clearly, that was not the intent.
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04/24/2005 9:03:47 AM PDT by
Publius6961
(The most abundant things in the universe are ignorance, stupidity and hydrogen)
To: Publius6961
To: Publius6961
Do any legal types out there have a clue as to what court decision established that the children of the persons actually listed could claim citizenship? Cannot find any. In fact, through 1898 the Supreme Court consistently ruled the opposite. Even Native Americans born on reservations were deemed not to be US Citizens.
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To: Publius6961
Do any legal types out there have a clue as to what court decision established that the children of the persons actually listed could claim citizenship? In Wong Kim Ark v. United States (1898), the Supreme Court held that the 14th Amendment conferred citizenship on anyone born here, except for children of foreign diplomats (who had diplomatic immunity, and thus were not subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S.) and American Indians born in those parts of Indian country which were still sovereign and had not been subjected to U.S. law.
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