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To: John Valentine
I do not believe that the court even one time used the term “natural born” in Kim.

Only in a note, quoting something else. But even that quote indicates a difference between "natural born" and "native born" of alien parents.

The right of citizenship never descends in the legal sense, either by the common law or under the common naturalization acts. It is incident to birth in the country, or it is given personally by statute. The child of an alien, if born in the country, is as much a citizen as the natural born child of a citizen, and by operation of the same principle.

But that is the only place in decision where "natural born" is used. Everyone can Verify that for themselves

381 posted on 07/26/2009 6:36:49 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: El Gato

The term is quoted and used in more than just that one place. They cited other cases where the term was used, for example:

“In U. S. v. Rhodes (1866), Mr. Justice Swayne, sitting in the circuit court, said: ‘All persons born in the allegiance of the king are natural- born subjects, and all persons born in the allegiance of the United States are natural-born citizens. Birth and allegiance go together. Such is the rule of the common law, and it is the common law of this country, as well as of England.’ ‘We find no warrant for the opinion that this great principle of the common law has ever been changed in the United States. It has always obtained here with the same vigor, and subject only to the same exceptions, since as before the Revolution.’” United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649, 662-663 [cit. omitted.]


387 posted on 07/26/2009 6:55:06 PM PDT by WOSG (Why is Obama trying to bankrupt America with $16 trillion in spending over the next 4 years?)
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