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The Constitution directly specified 3 types of citizens, at the time of the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment as those who are “citizens,” those who were citizens at the time of the adoption of the Constitution, and natural born citizens. The architects of the Fourteenth Amendment had two to choose from in granting citizenship under this amendment, they choose just a citizen, and rejected “a natural born citizen.”
Wrong.
The Constitution recognizes two and only two classes of citizen; natural born and naturalized. There is no third class. This was true under the Constitution as originally established, and reasserted by the 14th Amendment.
The Constitution recognizes two and only two classes of citizen; natural born and naturalized. There is no third class. This was true under the Constitution as originally established, and reasserted by the 14th Amendment.
Where were you born, and of what citizenship were your parents at the time of your birth?
Article I, Section II of the Constitution names citizens jus sanguanis (natural citizens) and jsu soli (citizens where born).
The US recognizes both Jus sanguinis (not sanguanis) and jus soli, to establish natural born citizensip.
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Natural Born Citizen did preexist the the 14th Amendment.
Yes it did. The 14th amendment reaffirmed that. Did you know that women weren't considered citizens at all, despite being born to citizen parents and/or born on US Soil?
Article I, Section II of the Constitution names citizens jus sanguanis (natural citizens) and jsu soli (citizens where born).
Wrong. This is Article I, Section II of the US Constitution:
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The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.
No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.
NO it didn't. The Constitution defintes 2 and only two types of citizens, those born and those who are naturalized.
Well, of course, no one is arguing that unborn citizens would require naturalization for citizenship.
"Any person unborn as a citizen, by virtue of parental allegiance to another nation, or by virtue of subsummation of another nation's "property", would require naturalization and not be eligible for the Constitutional qualification of president or vice president of the United States."- Nonarchist
I was born in the United States to parents who were born in the United States to citizens of Italy.
So . . You're parents never got themselves naturalized?
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