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To: sometime lurker

A natural born citizen is born to citizen parents. The Supreme Court never stated a natural born citizen is born to alien parents or an alien father.

Your posts are an example..Jefferson’s concerns of “unbounded licentiousness”...”bias”

Natural means descent...posterity means descent...from citizen parents.


311 posted on 09/12/2011 7:07:57 PM PDT by bushpilot1
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To: bushpilot1
The Supreme Court never stated a natural born citizen is born to alien parents or an alien father.

Actually, they did. Inglis v. Trustees of Sailor's Snug Harbor, 1830

...he was born an American citizen, whether his parents were at the time of his birth British subjects or American citizens. Nothing is better settled at the common law than the doctrine that the children even of aliens born in a country, while the parents are resident there under the protection of the government, and owing a temporary allegiance thereto, are subjects by birth.
See also Schneider vs Rusk
We start from the premise that the rights of citizenship of the native born and of the naturalized person are of the same dignity, and are coextensive. The only difference drawn by the Constitution is that only the "natural born" citizen is eligible to be President.
and Rogers vs Bellei,
We thus have an acknowledgment that our law in this area follows English concepts with an acceptance of the jus soli, that is, that the place of birth governs citizenship status except as modified by statute.
In case you are not aware, the English concept of jus soli is that born on the soil = natural born (with a very few exceptions: children of foreign diplomats, occupying military, etc.). So yes, the Supreme Court has given opinions on this.
312 posted on 09/12/2011 7:32:08 PM PDT by sometime lurker
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