The statute law on citizenship ONLY considered parents. grand paremts are not mentioned in the statute. Consider what the founding generation and subsequent writers said....
In the official copies of the THIRD U.S. Congress (1795) margin notes state “Former act repealed. 1790. ch. 3.” referencing the FIRST U.S. Congress (1790).
Document ONE: the actual text of the THIRD CONGRESS in 1795 states,
“...children of citizens [plural, i.e. two parents] of the United States...shall be considered citizens of the United States; Provided That the right of citizenship shall not descend to persons, whose fathers have never been resident in the United States...” (THIRD CONGRESS Sess. II. Ch.21. 1795, Approved January 29, 1795, pp. 414-415. Document margin note: “How children shall obtain citizenship through their parents” Document margin note: “Former Act repealed 1790 ch.3.”) See Attachment A.
Document TWO: the actual text of the FIRST CONGRESS in 1790 states,
“...children of citizens (NB: plural, i.e. two parents) of the United States...shall be considered as natural born citizens of the United States; Provided That the right of citizenship shall not descend to persons, whose fathers have never been resident in the United States...” (FIRST CONGRESS Sess. II Ch.4 1790, Approved March 26, 1790, pp. 103-104. Document margin note: “Their children residing here, deemed citizens.” Document margin note: “Also, children of citizens born beyond sea, & c. Exceptions.”) See Attachment B.
Document THREE: the actual text of the Constitution from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789, and subsequent official printings, of the Constitution of the United States of American: Article II Section 1 Clause 5 states,
“No person, except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States
at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President…” See Attachment C.
Document FOUR: the actual text in a letter, dated January 26, 2009, was issued by United States Senator Mark R. Warner. Senator Warner fails to address any laws identifying a natural born citizen. Instead Senator Warner solely addresses a law identifying a citizen; avoiding the legal term “natural born citizen” as so stated under current Constitutional/Congress laws,
“…the Immigration and Nationality Act (P.L. 82-414) …states that
‘…A person born...after April 30, 1900 is a CITIZEN (emphasis added)
of the United States at birth.....’” See Attachment D
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Really? Because you just got done telling me that because my great grandfather was born in Italy, I'm not a natural born citizen.