[Democratic-Republican]

My FRiend Yosemitest, wow, just wow. You are something else. I said this ...

"but it is a mistake and you have to face the most basic fact here ...

citizen ≠ natural born citizen

... everyone knows it, everyone has always known it, "

To which you replied ...

You could NOT be MORE WRONG, even if you tried !
VERY FEW PEOPLE believe that.

You are a special case. I've seen dedication but this takes the cake. Apparently everyone for 228 years were mistaken and you figured it all out now.

I even showed you that Madison himself struck the NBC portion of the 1790 law that you continue to post, and he even warned that people might do exactly what you are doing, right here, right now!

Okay, that makes you a higher than authority than the main man himself. LOL! A person who makes a mistake can be honorable and admit it and then correct it. Other types just carry on as if it never happened.

I'm quite sure now that others have seen enough to be convinced of where the arguments of merit lie and where the arguments of tangled spaghetti are.

[Yosemitest]

It was Settled in 1790 and AGAIN in 1802!

In 1798, the law on naturalization was changed again.
The Federalists feared that many new immigrants favored their political foes, the Democratic-Republicans.
The Federalists, therefore, wanted to reduce the political influence of immigrants.
To do so, the Federalists, who controlled Congress, passed a law
that required immigrants to wait fourteen years before becoming naturalized citizens and thereby gaining the right to vote.
The 1798 act also barred naturalization for citizens of countries at war with the United States.
At the time, the United States was engaged in an unofficial, undeclared naval war with France.
The French government thought the United States had taken the side of Britain in the ongoing conflict between Britain and France.
A related law passed in 1798, the Alien Enemy Act, gave the president the power during a time of war to arrest or deport any alien thought to be a danger to the government.

After Jefferson became president (in 1801), the 1798 naturalization law was repealed, or overturned (in 1802).
The basic provisions of the original 1790 law WERE RESTORED except for the period of residency before naturalization.
The residency requirement, that is, the amount of time the immigrant had to reside, or live, in the United States, was put back to five years, as it had been in 1795.

The 1802 law remained the basic naturalization act until 1906, with two notable exceptions.
In 1855, the wives of American citizens were automatically granted citizenship.
In 1870, people of African descent could become naturalized citizens, in line with constitutional amendments passed after the American Civil War (1861-65)
that banned slavery and gave African American men the right to vote.
Other laws were passed to limit the number of people (if any) allowed to enter the United States from different countries,
especially Asian countries, but these laws did not affect limits on naturalization.

Within a decade of adopting the Constitution, immigration, and naturalization in particular, had become hot political issues.
They have remained political issues for more than two centuries.

Did you know ...

Naturalization laws relate to the process of immigrants becoming a citizen.
Other laws have provided for losing citizenship -
- by getting married!
In 1907, Congress passed a law that said a woman born in the United States (and therefore a citizen) would lose her citizenship
if she married an alien (who was therefore not a citizen).
In 1922, two years after women won the right to vote,
this provision was repealed and a woman's citizenship status was separated from her husband's.

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1st United States Congress, 21-26 Senators and 59-65 Representatives