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To: allmendream

The naturalization law of 1790 was an act of congress, and thus incapable of redefining constitutional requirements.

You should have learned that (that congress cannot change the constitution) in the eigth grade.


123 posted on 08/24/2011 7:50:08 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Sarah Palin - 2012!)
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To: editor-surveyor
Congress has the Constitutional power to determine laws for naturalization.

By saying, in 1790, that the children born to a U.S. father overseas are “natural born citizens” they are clarifying that they do not need “naturalization” into a state they were born into.

You were and remain wrong to say that one needed TWO citizen parents to be considered a citizen before the 14th Amendment and that those without two citizen parents needed to be naturalized.

They did not.

One parent (the father) was enough to be a citizen at birth and not need naturalization.

It is historic revisionism and absolutely incorrect to say that before the 14th they would not be citizens and would need naturalization if they only had one citizen parent.

142 posted on 08/25/2011 5:56:35 AM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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