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To: DiogenesLamp

” Again, here is the list of people born here that were not “ citizens.”

1. British Loyalists after the war.
2. Slaves.
3. Indians.
4. Children of Women married to Foreigners prior to the Cable act.
5. The Children of Foreign Diplomats.”

British loyalists were not born in the USA. If they were born here after the Revolution, then they were citizens. This no longer exists, since such folks are all dead.

Slaves were considered property, and property cannot be a citizen. There are no more slaves in the USA.

Indians, as the Supreme Court noted in WKA, were members of a foreign nation existing within the geographical boundaries of the USA. The law was changed and Indians are now born US citizens and can run for President.

Children of Women married to Foreigners: If the children were born in the USA, they were citizens. A woman who married a foreigner prior to the Cable Act was assumed to have abandoned her US citizenship and taken on the citizenship of her husband. If she gave birth overseas, then her children would not be US citizens.

Children of Foreign Diplomats, as the WKA decision noted, had always been considered foreigners, as had the children of an invading army.


216 posted on 08/01/2012 1:07:56 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (Liberalism: "Ex faslo quodlibet" - from falseness, anything follows)
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To: Mr Rogers

I’m not going to bother with you or your points. Responding to you is not worth my time.


268 posted on 08/01/2012 3:48:13 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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