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To: djf

This isn’t how case law operates now.


17 posted on 01/22/2012 1:41:50 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Nevertheless, that is what the Slaughterhouse case tells us. That is the meaning of the 14th amendment citizenship clause.

To be a “citizen” because of the 14th amendment (and, incidentally, have “privileges and immunities” not all the protections of the Bill of Rights”), you need to be born at a place that is under the “exclusive legislative jurisdiction” of the United States federal government.


18 posted on 01/22/2012 1:50:01 AM PST by djf (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2801220/posts)
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