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To: traderrob6

Additionally, the first Congress of the United States passed the Naturalization Act of 1790, just three years after the Constitution was written, which stated that children born abroad to U.S. citizens were, too, natural born citizens
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Which was repealed and rewritten in 1795 when the error about natural born was corrected.


48 posted on 01/17/2016 4:18:13 PM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: Mollypitcher1

You say corrected most would say simply omitted. What the motivation for this omission would be speculation at best.


53 posted on 01/17/2016 4:22:38 PM PST by traderrob6
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