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To: Secret Agent Man
Now don’t get me wrong, I would certainly love to see something that knocks this out of the park, but between Title 8 1401 and Title 8 1405 these would be interpreted by the SCOTUS to determine if he was natural born or not, both sides would be claiming opposite answers.

A law passed by Congress cannot change the Constitution, nor the meaning of any of it's terms. They must mean now what they meant when written. It would be up to a Court, probably the Supreme Court in the final analysis, to determine what that meaning was and is. Title 8, section 1401 and 1405 were passed under Congress power to define a uniform rule of Naturalization. Thus anyone who is a citizen, at birth or later, only because of those sections, or any other Congressional laws, must logically be a naturalized citizen. Congress has no power to create or define any other sort.

145 posted on 07/20/2009 11:28:09 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: El Gato

“Thus anyone who is a citizen, at birth or later, only because of those sections, or any other Congressional laws, must logically be a naturalized citizen.”

That’s a contradiction. Naturalization only happens *AFTER* birth. Birthright (’natural-born’) citizen and naturalized citizen are mutually exclusive.


341 posted on 07/26/2009 11:41:03 AM PDT by WOSG (Why is Obama trying to bankrupt America with $16 trillion in spending over the next 4 years?)
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