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To: DiogenesLamp
If you have a problem with the Jus Soli doctrine of citizenship, then you have a problem with the US Constitution. There is no question that the US Constitution, specifically the 14th Amendment, provides for Jus Soli citizenship. That is accepted and well settled citizenship law in the US, and has been for over 100 years. Read the SCOTUS case, Rogers v. Bellei.

It is the job of SCOTUS to apply the Constitution to the fact situation presented to them. It not their job to apply what they think is the right thing to do. That is the mentality of liberal activist judges. For someone who claims to be a conservative, you seem to have a lot of problems with the Constitution.

425 posted on 10/17/2011 10:37:57 AM PDT by ydoucare
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To: ydoucare
If you have a problem with the Jus Soli doctrine of citizenship, then you have a problem with the US Constitution. There is no question that the US Constitution, specifically the 14th Amendment, provides for Jus Soli citizenship. That is accepted and well settled citizenship law in the US, and has been for over 100 years. Read the SCOTUS case, Rogers v. Bellei.

It is a pernicious British Common law that has not been successfully excised from the American legal mindset. It was so abhorrent that the Legislature of New York passed a specific law rebuking it after a New York judge interpreted New York's lack of a citizenship law as requiring the application of English Common law to remedy a case.

It is the job of SCOTUS to apply the Constitution to the fact situation presented to them. It not their job to apply what they think is the right thing to do. That is the mentality of liberal activist judges.

Fine, then stop trying to use a Slavery Citizenship law to rewrite presidential qualifications. It did no such thing.

For someone who claims to be a conservative, you seem to have a lot of problems with the Constitution.

No, I have problems with the LYING about what it says and what it means. You know, what YOU people have been doing. The 14th amendment does not create a right to abortion, nor does it make citizens out of transient alien's children, and that is even if you grant it the credibility which it doesn't really deserve; having been foisted on the nation at gun point.

437 posted on 10/17/2011 1:00:10 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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