[Mr Rogers]

You just keep pushing Netherlands law, and citing cases from before the Constitution was amended...

Nope, no English law determines if someone born in the USA is a US citizen. Ever hear of the War of 1812? Thought not!

[patlin]

LOL, do you knwo how ignorant you sound? You claim the founders adopted birthright citizenship while stating that they didn't. War of 1812? I think it is you that does not appreciate the core context of it. I challenge you to show me ONE law or congressional act that distinguished children born to aliens on US soil and those that weren't. Show me the law wherein it says that children of aliens born in the US are citizens, let alone natural born ones.

Federalist Papers...you know those letters printed so the American people would understand the system of government that was drafted and where it was derived from? Federalist #20, 21, 22; Defects of a Confederate Republic...a brief summary: The Netherlands was the best form of a Republic in place at the time which the founders looked to for guidance but it had many defects as the Confederate States were experienceing personally. Therefore, the founders made it better by forming a Federal Republic instead of the weak confederate one the Netherlands & current Confederate States were under.

Geez, if you don't even know what kind of government system we have, where the founders looked to for guidance & why this form of government was chosen, then how can you even claim to have the knowledge by which the laws were made. Only an ignorant arse would try to make such a baseless claim. Have you looked in the mirror lately?