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To: curiosity

They didn’t codify the precedent. The law says, “And the children of citizens of the United States, that may be born beyond sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born citizens ...” They aren’t saying these children ARE natural born citizens, which was the language Blackstone used in reference to English common law, “all children, born out of the king’s ligeance, whose fathers were natural-born subjects, are now natural-born subjects themselves ...” The language in the 1790 naturalization act is softer, ‘considered as ...’ In 1795, the completely dropped the phrase natural born citizen: “the children of citizens of the United States born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States, shall be considered as citizens of the United States ...” The problem is that a naturalization act can’t technically create natural born citizens, and evidently someone recognized this and changed the language.


229 posted on 08/26/2010 9:33:34 AM PDT by edge919
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To: edge919
They didn’t codify the precedent. The law says, “And the children of citizens of the United States, that may be born beyond sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born citizens ...” They aren’t saying these children ARE natural born citizens, which was the language Blackstone used in reference to English common law, “all children, born out of the king’s ligeance, whose fathers were natural-born subjects, are now natural-born subjects themselves ...” The language in the 1790 naturalization act is softer, ‘considered as ...’

LOL. So the whole crux of your argument is that they used "consiered as" instead of is? That's just to silly for words.

The way you love to reading meaning into words that isn't there truly amuses me.

237 posted on 08/26/2010 9:41:37 AM PDT by curiosity
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