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To: everyone
I urge everyone to read our late Congressman BillyBob's explanation of the 14th Amendment which I've linked above.

12 posted on 09/01/2010 11:07:45 AM PDT by onyx (If you support Sarah and want on her Ping List, let me know!)
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To: onyx
Congressman Billybob was wrong about the 14th in the following respect: It actually forbids anchor babies because the 14th only applies to those "subject to the jurisdiction," not those merely within the jurisdiction. Hence, because the Constitution is a limiting document, Congress has no power to confer citizenship on those within, but not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.

Any alien, resident or illegal, is within, but not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. All you have to do is read a law dictionary contemporary to the time the Amendment was drafted to see how those who wrote and ratified it understood the word "subject."

15 posted on 09/01/2010 11:17:20 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The fourth estate IS the fifth column.)
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To: onyx
our late Congressman BillyBob's

Has BillyBob died?

19 posted on 09/01/2010 11:48:41 AM PDT by itsahoot (We the people allowed Republican leadership to get us here, only God's Grace can get us out.)
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