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To: taxcontrol
Says you. However, Congress and SCOTUS say otherwise.

The Supreme Court of the United States has never applied the term “natural born citizen” to any other category than “those born in the country of parents who are citizens thereof”.

49 posted on 03/23/2015 9:12:35 AM PDT by Godebert
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To: Godebert

Bzzzz, incorrect. Thanks for trying.

Please read the first acts of Congress, written by the founders and authors of the Constitution and look for the term “natural born”. That precedent clearly shows that NBC is NOT based EXCLUSIVELY on the LOCATION of birth. Rather, the parentage can be a factor as well. If a person is born abroad to US citizen parents, they are citizens at birth.

Further, SCOTUS has ruled in United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898) that parentage is also not the EXCLUSIVE determinate for natural born citizenship. In the ruling, SCOTUS determined that a person born within the jurisdiction of the US, regardless of the citizenship of their parents, is a natural born citizen.

Please stop posting FALSE information. If you don’t like the rulings and precedents, fine, organize people to change the Constitution. I’m sure there are many who would support changes to the current legal status.


69 posted on 03/23/2015 9:33:05 AM PDT by taxcontrol
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