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To: douginthearmy
Read this ( especially pp. 6&7): Wrong Question in Hamdi, by Attorney General Ed Meese and Dr. John Eastman and get back to all of us about how you confused territorial jurisdiction with political jurisdiction.

And as far as "changing the law", it's only necessary to clarify the 14th: HR 190 by Bob Stump.

To put it bluntly, you're wrong.

38 posted on 04/29/2010 10:02:10 PM PDT by Regulator (Welcome to Zimbabwe! Now hand over your property....)
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To: Regulator
Anyone who is “born” in the United States is, under this interpretation, necessarily “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States. Yet it is a well-established doctrine of legal interpretation that legal texts, including the Constitution, are not to be interpreted to create redundancy unless any other interpretation would lead to absurd results.

Alas, they are wrong. It is not ANYONE. The clause excludes diplomats and is therefor not redundant. Its in the Wong Kim Ark case.

40 posted on 04/29/2010 10:17:52 PM PDT by douginthearmy
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