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To: Mr Rogers
The link you provide on the Supreme Court is bogus. The cases cited do not show NBC requires 2 citizen parents, nor did they attempt to.

You don't know your American history, do you???

Throughout most of the history of American immigration, particularly since 1848, a foreign woman became an American citizen upon marriage to American man.

Therefore, any child of one American parent was automatically the child of two American parents. If the father was an American citizen, then so was the mother. The two-parent requirement was automatically met if the father was a citizen.

In the light of this, let's read the Court in Minor versus Happersett during the height of the immigration movement in 1875:

"The Constitution does not in words say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners. Some authorities go further and include as citizens children born within the jurisdiction without reference to the citizenship of their parents." [Minor v. Happersett , 88 U.S. 162 (1875)]

The citizenship of the father was automatically the citizenship of the mother and became the citizenship of the child. "Parents" meant daddies and mommies.

388 posted on 05/03/2010 12:28:19 PM PDT by Uncle Chip (TRUTH : Ignore it. Deride it. Allegorize it. Interpret it. But you can't ESCAPE it.)
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To: Uncle Chip

They said one case - with parents both citizens - was never doubted, and admitted others said “children born within the jurisdiction without reference to the citizenship of their parents”.

There was still debate in 1875, but WKA in 1897? put an end to most of the debate. By the 1950s, there wasn’t a debate about those born in the USA. The implications of WKA, and the reasoning that formed its basis, had been accepted.

In 2010, it is a bit late to rewrite the books. Not totally impossible, but there is NO SIGN the SCOTUS will touch this case. NONE!


392 posted on 05/03/2010 4:21:39 PM PDT by Mr Rogers
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