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To: allmendream; Non-Sequitur

So ... as long as the foreign dictators’s wife conceives the baby on American soil, you are okay with the child returning to the U.S. some day so daddy can buy him an American election ... all due to the “citizenship” ruling in Wong Kim Ark? That is liberal loony left speak. That is the antithesis of the Framers’ intent as it relates to the natural-born requirement for the office of POTUS. Had the Framers penned that into the Constitution, we could have been usurped legally back under British rule as early as the election of 1812! You are reading an awful lot into the Wong Kim Ark decision that is not there. You can pitch it, but don’t expect conservatives to buy it.


216 posted on 12/17/2008 6:04:48 PM PST by so_real
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To: so_real
You brought up “Wong Kim Ark” not me. I'm not reading anything into it other than Title 8 ...

Currently, Title 8 of the U.S. Code passed by Congress under authority of Article I section 8 of the Constitution has determined that “citizens of the United States at birth:” include

Anyone born inside the United States
Any Indian or Eskimo born in the United States, provided being a citizen of the U.S. does not impair the person's status as a citizen of the tribe
Any one born outside the United States, both of whose parents are citizens of the U.S., as long as one parent has lived in the U.S.
Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one year and the other parent is a U.S. national
Any one born in a U.S. possession, if one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one year
Any one found in the U.S. under the age of five, whose parentage cannot be determined, as long as proof of non-citizenship is not provided by age 21
Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is an alien and as long as the other parent is a citizen of the U.S. who lived in the U.S. for at least five years (with military and diplomatic service included in this time)
A final, historical condition: a person born before 5/24/1934 of an alien father and a U.S. citizen mother who has lived in the U.S.

218 posted on 12/17/2008 6:25:56 PM PST by allmendream (Wealth is EARNED not distributed.... so how could it be Redistributed?)
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To: so_real
So ... as long as the foreign dictators’s wife conceives the baby on American soil, you are okay with the child returning to the U.S. some day so daddy can buy him an American election ... all due to the “citizenship” ruling in Wong Kim Ark?

It would help if you would actually break down and read the court decision that you're disputing. Justice Gray clearly stated the natural born citizen rule, and that exception included the children of foreign dignitaries and heads of state.

That is the antithesis of the Framers’ intent as it relates to the natural-born requirement for the office of POTUS.

And you base that on what?

You are reading an awful lot into the Wong Kim Ark decision that is not there.

And how would you know?

230 posted on 12/18/2008 4:01:02 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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