[New Jersey Realist]

Sorry, scratch that quote because of previous typo’s or something I cannot find it now. It is very difficult to find anything in the Globe because there is no search benefit. You can replace that one with the following quote from US V. Wong Kim:

“Every citizen or subject of another country, while domiciled here, is within the allegiance and the protection, and consequently subject to the jurisdiction, of the United States. His allegiance to the United States is direct and immediate, and, although but local and temporary, continuing only so long as he remains within our territory, is yet, in the words of Lord Coke in Calvin’s Case, 7 Coke, 6a, ‘strong enough to make a natural subject, for, if he hath issue here, that issue is a natural-born subject’; and his child, as said by Mr. Binney in his essay before quoted, ‘If born in the country, is as much a citizen as the natural-born child of a citizen…”

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0169_0649_ZO.html

[philman_36]

Why would I care about dicta from a case that made someone a U.S. citizen via the 14th Amendment.
The issue is natural born citizen, not 14th Amendment citizen.

[MamaTexan]

in the words of Lord Coke in Calvin’s Case, 7 Coke, 6a, ‘strong enough to make a natural subject, for, if he hath issue here, that issue is a natural-born subject’; and his child, as said by Mr. Binney in his essay before quoted, ‘If born in the country, is as much a citizen as the natural-born child of a citizen…”

LOL!

If born in the country, is as much a citizen as the natural-born child of a citizen…”

There are 2 types of 'citizens' in that sentence.