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To: Michael Michael
You can really spew the BS with the best of them.

Here's more evidence for you to chew on besides what I have shown you in the past that you are clearly wrong:

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"To remove this difficulty primarily, and to establish clear and comprehensive definition of citizenship which should declare what should constitute citizenship of the United States and also citizenship of a State, the first clause of the first section was framed.

"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."

The first observation we have to make on this clause is that it puts at rest both the questions which we stated to have been the subject of differences of opinion. It declares that persons may be citizens of the United States without regard to their citizenship of a particular State, and it overturns the Dred Scott decision by making all persons born within the United States and subject to its jurisdiction citizens of the United States. That its main purpose was to establish the citizenship of the negro can admit of no doubt. The phrase, "subject to its jurisdiction" was intended to exclude from its operation children of ministers, consuls, and citizens or subjects of foreign States born within the United States.

The next observation is more important in view of the arguments of counsel in the present case. It is that the distinction between citizenship of the United States and citizenship of a State is clearly recognized and established.... "

U.S. Supreme Court Slaughterhouse Cases, 83 U.S. 16 Wall. 36 36 (1872)

393 posted on 02/15/2009 8:35:01 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: Red Steel
The phrase, "subject to its jurisdiction" was intended to exclude from its operation children of ministers, consuls, and citizens or subjects of foreign States born within the United States.

The proposition before us [the citizenship clause of the Fourteenth Amendment], I will say, Mr. President, relates simply in that respect to the children begotten of Chinese [immigrant] parents in California, and it is proposed to declare that they shall be citizens. We have declared that by law [Civil Rights Act of 1866]; now it is proposed to incorporate the same provision in the fundamental instrument of the nation.



397 posted on 02/15/2009 8:57:05 PM PST by Michael Michael
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