You are viewing an obsolete version of the DU website which is no longer supported by the Administrators. Visit The New DU.

Latest

Greatest

Lobby

Journals

Options

Help

Reply #17: They want citizenship to be statutory and not a birthright, making it a political football [View All]

Printer-friendly format

Email this thread to a friend

Bookmark this thread

This topic is archived.

Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion: Presidential (Through Nov 2009)

Land Shark

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Thu Dec-04-08 11:00 AM
Response to Reply #14

17. They want citizenship to be statutory and not a birthright, making it a political football

IT's very dangerous to buy into frames or legal "realities" that allow citizenship, even a subspecies they want to create as a third class of citizen for qualifications purposes, can be a political football for Congress to kick around and change from time to time -- so-called "aliens" are essentially people without rights, given congress's plenary power under "naturalization". But this is quite different from naturalization, it's in the class of persons born citizens, but they want to claim some people are "unnaturally born".

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion: Presidential (Through Nov 2009)

Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators

Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.

Home | Discussion Forums | Journals | Store | Donate

About DU | Contact Us | Privacy Policy

Got a message for Democratic Underground? Click here to send us a message.