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pnwmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-11 06:37 AM
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84. This is false and you know it. You don't have a single citation
Edited on Tue Apr-12-11 06:40 AM by pnwmom
for your claims.

A natural born citizen can be born in any of the 50 states and neither parent is required to be a citizen at the time of the birth (or ever, for that matter). The only exceptions are the children of diplomats or of "alien enemies in hostile occupation."



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Born_Citizen_claus...

United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898):
Since the Constitution does not specify what the requirements are to be a "citizen" or a "natural born citizen", the majority adopted the common law of England:

The court ruled:
It thus clearly appears that by the law of England for the last three centuries, beginning before the settlement of this country, and continuing to the present day, aliens, while residing in the dominions possessed by the crown of England, were within the allegiance, the obedience, the faith or loyalty, the protection, the power, and the jurisdiction of the English sovereign; and therefore every child born in England of alien parents was a natural-born subject, unless the child of an ambassador or other diplomatic agent of a foreign state, or of an alien enemy in hostile occupation of the place where the child was born. III. The same rule was in force in all the English colonies upon this continent down to the time of the Declaration of Independence, and in the United States afterwards, and continued to prevail under the constitution as originally established.
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