[x5452]

Creating situations for our government to arbitrate our right to citizenship is very dangerous. Any granting of such powers enables the government to further expand upon them, and deny the basic rights of citizenship. It is a pandoras box that must remain closed.

[Carry_Okie]

Creating situations for our government to arbitrate our right to citizenship is very dangerous. Any granting of such powers enables the government to further expand upon them, and deny the basic rights of citizenship. It is a pandoras box that must remain closed.

It was opened when the 14th was ratified, under the presumption that government has the right to define citizenship. Given the mess the courts made of it over the last seventy years, fixing the mess is our task, however hazardous it might be. The status quo cannot stand.

[highball]

Creating situations for our government to arbitrate our right to citizenship is very dangerous. Any granting of such powers enables the government to further expand upon them, and deny the basic rights of citizenship. It is a pandoras box that must remain closed.

Precisely. Thank you.

Don't give the government too much power - remember, as much as it seems unlikely, there will be a time when the Dims have a majority. Whatever power you give "our" Congress you are also giving to them.