On Aug 12, 10:39 am, plainolamerican <[email protected]>
wrote:
> ....Barak Obama is with the 'fishy' birth certificate.
> ---
> true or false?
> To be a natural born citizen, a person's parents must BOTH be citizens
> of the United States of America.
False.
Even if only one parent is a citizen of the US, it doesn't matter
where in the world they give birth, they're still a US citizen as long
as they haven't revoked their citizenship and became a citizen of
another country.
1857 opinion of Supreme Court Justice Benjamin R. Curtis
In his opinion dissenting from the decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford
60 U.S. (How. 19) 393 (1857) Justice Benjamin R. Curtis wrote in
considerable detail on this topic. His writing there is too lengthy to
requote here in entirety; partially requoted, Justice Curtis wrote,
The first section of the second article of the Constitution uses
the language "a natural-born citizen." It thus assumes that
citizenship may be acquired by birth. Undoubtedly, this language of
the Constitution was used in reference to that principle of public
law, well understood in the history of this country at the time of the
adoption of the Constitution, which referred Citizenship to the place
of birth. At the Declaration of Independence, and ever since, the
received general doctrine has been, in conformity with the common law,
that free persons born within either of the colonies, were the
subjects of the King; that by the Declaration of independence, and the
consequent acquisition of sovereignty by the several States, all such
persons ceased to be subjects, and became citizens of the several
States, [...] .
The Constitution having recognized that persons born within the
several States are citizens of the United States, one of four things
must be true:
First. That the constitution itself has described what native-
born persons shall or shall not be citizens of such State, and thereby
be citizens of the United States; or,
Second:. That it has empowered Congress to do so; or,
Third. That all free persons, born within the several States,
are citizens of the United States; or,
Fourth. That it is left to each State to determine what free
persons, born within its limits, shall be citizens of such State, and
thereby be citizens of the United States.
If there is such a thing as Citizenship of the United States
acquired by birth within the States, which the Constitution expressly
recognizes, and no one denies, then those four alternatives embrace
the entire subject, and it only remains to select that one which is
true.
[...]
The answer is obvious. The Constitution has left to the States the
determination what person, born within their respective limits, shall
acquire by birth citizenship of the United States;
Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Birthright citizenship in the United States is controlled by the
Citizenship Clause in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution,
which states:
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject
to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of
the State wherein they reside.
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You who so believe in states rights...
stop making yourselves look like fools when the truth would serve you
better.
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