Posted on 02/20/2012 8:19:49 AM PST by Sallyven
The original Constitution as signed by the Founders only spoke of two kinds of citizens. There are the ‘natural born citizens’ eligible to be POTUSA and just plain ‘citizens’. Though there have been court decisions and amendments to the Constitution it all boils down to the Constitution specifying only two distinct kinds of citizens. Your classification of citizens doesn’t seem to explain coherency with the Constitutional presentation.
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Evil.
The USA is the 'city on the hill.' Our strength was the Judeo-Christian nuclear family. Rights and freedom were God given and unalienable. We weren't perfect, but we held things sacred and in our beginings we held God sacred. More and more, God and charity were replaced with the state.
The last bastion of freedom now welcomes the slaughter of innocent babies. Laziness, ignorance, and grifting are rewarded with the fruits of another's labor in the form of WIC, welfare, food stamps, medicare, medicaid, Section 8 housing, and on and on. Perverted sex acts are taught to our kindergartners in school. 5 year olds now have "gender identity" issus and can be given drugs/"treatments" to help their twisted sense of reality. Rules on citizenship and entry into the country no longer apply or enforced. Contraception and abortion are now considered civil rights and must be paid for regardless of your moral or religious beliefs. The justice system has created "hate crimes" to make some animals more equal than others. Homosexuality and other perversions are now celebrated and paraded through the streets. Heterosexual marriage is derided and undermined. Being a slave to debt is encouraged. Hard work and ingenuity is derided as "greedy," "oppressive," and "the 1%." Chivalry and looking out for women is now sexist and chauvanist.
Look to Europe....upon creation of the Eurozone, they re-built the Tower of Babel as a 'thumb your nose at God,' we can do what you un-did. Look at the principles the eurotrash adhere to.........we are right behind them; we forgot why our forefathers left. That should say everything that needs to be said for who is profiting; at least profiting in the short term.
"TITLE X—CITIZENSHIP 4 SEC. 1001. BASIS OF CITIZENSHIP CLARIFIED. In the exercise of its powers under section of the Fourteenth Article of Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, the Congress has determined and hereby declares that any person born after the date of enactment of this title to a mother who is neither a citizen of the United States nor admitted to the United States as a lawful permanent resident, and which person is a national or citizen of another country of which either of his or her natural parents is a national or citizen, or is entitled upon application to become a national or citizen of such country, shall be considered as born subject to the jurisdiction of that foreign country and not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States within the meaning of section 1 of such Article and shall therefore not be a citizen of the United States or of any State solely by reason of physical presence within the United States at the moment of birth." And here is demonstrated the stunning hipocrisy and irony: Reid's bill would deny birthright citizenship to certain classes of people, and yet he (Reid) considers "Obama" a Natural Born Citizen for having (though this is unproved as of today) been born on US soil, even though BHO Sr. was never even a resident alien, let alone a US citizen.
Reid's bill would never have any effect on a true Natural Born Citizen because such a one's citizenship status is not in any way dependent upon any legal contrivance of man. A citizen born on US soil and having two citizen parents naturally follows the citizenship of those parents. They just are.
Come on. The very notion of "citizen" is a contrivance of man. It's an artifiact of certain kinds of political organization. Who is and is not a citizen is completely determined by contrivances of man.
"A citizen born on US soil and having two citizen parents naturally follows the citizenship of those parents. They just are."
The traditional practice going back centuries, even prior to the founding the US, is that being born in the country makes you a citizen. Your parents do not matter. That was the understanding in 1789, and it is now explicitly coded into the 14th Ammendment. Being a "natural born citizen" simply means having been a citizen by birth, as opposed to be naturalized at some point later in life. All these birther distortions about history and the law are downright ridiculous.
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