Posted on 02/25/2016 7:17:51 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
specifically, it actually began with “The Cable Act of 1922”, then WOMEN AND U.S. NATURALIZATION LAW REPATRIATION ACT OF 1936, and then the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952
Thanks for info. What it ends up doing is making natural born citizenship a higher bar than it was because the children have multiple citizenships instead of just the Father’s. It would be ridiculous for courts to rule that a piece of legislation created more natural born citizens. The citizenship clause of the 14th amendment was created in part to define natural born citizenship as being fully American without any other allegiances attained by the circumstances of one’s birth.
Says who. Interpretation of the law is a nebulous thing.
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