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To: MamaTexan

What is relevant about the exact wording of the Naturalization Act of 1790 is that the most conservative of judges and legal scholars, who are textualists and originalists are going to look to that actual wording and the context of the Founding generation for guidance as to intent.
To paraphrase: In the beginning, the Founders wanted the children of citizens born overseas to be natural born citizens and not naturalized citizens.


257 posted on 03/23/2015 4:29:56 PM PDT by Nero Germanicus (PALIN/CRUZ: 2016)
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To: Nero Germanicus
who are textualists and originalists are going to look to that actual wording and the context of the Founding generation for guidance as to intent.

No, honest ones would see it as being for a limited purpose, not try to limp its meaning along for their own ambitions.

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To paraphrase: In the beginning, the Founders wanted the children of citizens born overseas to be natural born citizens and not naturalized citizens.

But they didn't intend for it to last BEYOND the beginning, or they would have continued it in the 1795 Act.

264 posted on 03/23/2015 4:39:47 PM PDT by MamaTexan (I am a Person as created by the Laws of Nature, not a person as created by the laws of Man)
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