To: Beckwith
Fine. Whatever. That argument is so specious, it’s pathetic.
If a US serviceman or spouse gives birth to a baby in a German hospital outside the confines of the US base, isn’t that baby an American.
315 posted on
07/02/2009 11:02:14 AM PDT by
swarthyguy
("We may be crazy in Pakistan, but not completely out of our minds," ISI Gen. Ahmed Shujaa Pasha)
To: swarthyguy
If a US serviceman or spouse gives birth to a baby in a German hospital outside the confines of the US base, isn’t that baby an American.
Of course. He's an American citizen.
Is he a "natural born" citizen -- not according to all existing case law, which refers to two American citizen parents and born in the US mainland.
The Natural Born Citizen -- The Law
316 posted on
07/02/2009 11:24:10 AM PDT by
Beckwith
(A "natural born citizen" -- two American citizen parents and born in the USA.)
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