To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
Both definitions passed citizenship paternally. Paternally, eh? There's a chance that might have flown in 1716, but not in 2016!
60 posted on
04/17/2016 7:13:44 PM PDT by
cynwoody
To: cynwoody
Paternally, eh? There's a chance that might have flown in 1716, but not in 2016! Different times, different customs. Whatever the case, legal definitions do not change with the customs... at least, that's how we used to think.
To: cynwoody
There's a chance that might have flown in 1716, but not in 2016! Statues and cultural decay cannot change original intent.
If a Constitutional amendment were to be proposed, they would probably have to adopt an entirely different term other than "natural born citizen".
86 posted on
04/17/2016 7:52:15 PM PDT by
ROCKLOBSTER
(Ohhh....Derka derka derka!)
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