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To: Godebert

If Congress gets to decide who needs to be made a citizen (naturalized), then it is automatically defining who does not. I’m sure you see that.

Current law says that anyone born overseas to one US parent is recognized as a citizen at birth. That is similar to every law Congress has passed on the subject all the way back to the first naturalization act in 1790.

So, we can wish and want and hope and dream and write all we want about what we think “natural born” means, but it doesn’t change a thing in the actual laws passed by Congress....who is empowered by our Constitution with authority over this particular matter.


157 posted on 06/13/2014 4:50:36 AM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: xzins
"Man ... must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator.. This will of his Maker is called the law of nature.... This law of nature...is of course superior to any other.... No human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this: and such of them as are valid derive all their force...from this original." - Sir William Blackstone (Eminent English Jurist)<

Only in America, did a nation's founders recognize that rights, though endowed by the Creator as unalienable prerogatives, would not be sustained in society unless they were protected under a code of law which was itself in harmony with a higher law. They called it "natural law," or "Nature's law." Such law is the ultimate source and established limit for all of man's laws and is intended to protect each of these natural rights for all of mankind. The Declaration of Independence of 1776 established the premise that in America a people might assume the station "to which the laws of Nature and Nature's God entitle them.." It is clear that you lack a basic understanding of Natural Law and it's importance in the framing of our Constitution.

The Law of Nations or the Principles of Natural Law (1758)

The Laws of Nature and of Nature's God: The True Foundation of American Law

158 posted on 06/13/2014 5:41:46 AM PDT by Godebert
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