NoDoxGregBrady on Nostr: Here's the important bit of additional information. The "Birthright Citizenship" that ...
Here's the important bit of additional information. The "Birthright Citizenship" that was meant to only include the freed slaves was extended to anyone born on our soil by the Supreme Court. Not Congress, nor an Amendment ratified by the States. Just a Court case.
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Citizenship by birth in the united states To Non-Citizen Parents (United States v. Wong Kim Ark)
(CT:CITZ-37; 06-08-2020)
a. In United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898), the Court affirmed the right to citizenship of the United States of a child born in the State of California whose parents, at the time of his birth, were subjects of the Emperor of China not employed in any diplomatic or official capacity. After reviewing judicial and statutory precedents on citizenship, Justice Gray, writing for the Court, stated:
"The Fourteen Amendment affirms the ancient and fundamental rule of citizenship by birth within the territory, in the allegiance and under the protection of the country, including all children here born of resident aliens, with the exceptions or qualifications (as old as the rule itself) of children of foreign sovereigns or their ministers, or born on foreign public ships, or of enemies within and during a hostile occupation of part of our territory . . . . The Amendment, in clear words and in manifest intent, includes the children born, within the territory of the United States, of all other persons, of whatever race or color, domiciled within the United States. Every citizen or subject of another country, while domiciled here, is within the allegiance and the protection, and consequently subject to the jurisdiction, of the United States. His allegiance to the United States is direct and immediate [while in the United States and] . . . 'strong enough to make a natural subject, for if he hath issue here, that issue is a natural-born subject;' and his child . . . 'is as much a citizen as the natural-born child of a citizen, and by operation of the same principle.'"
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"To hold that the Fourteen Amendment of the Constitution excludes from citizenship the children, born in the United States, of citizens or subjects of other countries, would be to deny citizenship to thousands of persons of English, Scotch, Irish, German or other European parentage, who have always been considered and treated as citizens of the United States."
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Citizenship by birth in the united states To Non-Citizen Parents (United States v. Wong Kim Ark)
(CT:CITZ-37; 06-08-2020)
a. In United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898), the Court affirmed the right to citizenship of the United States of a child born in the State of California whose parents, at the time of his birth, were subjects of the Emperor of China not employed in any diplomatic or official capacity. After reviewing judicial and statutory precedents on citizenship, Justice Gray, writing for the Court, stated:
"The Fourteen Amendment affirms the ancient and fundamental rule of citizenship by birth within the territory, in the allegiance and under the protection of the country, including all children here born of resident aliens, with the exceptions or qualifications (as old as the rule itself) of children of foreign sovereigns or their ministers, or born on foreign public ships, or of enemies within and during a hostile occupation of part of our territory . . . . The Amendment, in clear words and in manifest intent, includes the children born, within the territory of the United States, of all other persons, of whatever race or color, domiciled within the United States. Every citizen or subject of another country, while domiciled here, is within the allegiance and the protection, and consequently subject to the jurisdiction, of the United States. His allegiance to the United States is direct and immediate [while in the United States and] . . . 'strong enough to make a natural subject, for if he hath issue here, that issue is a natural-born subject;' and his child . . . 'is as much a citizen as the natural-born child of a citizen, and by operation of the same principle.'"
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"To hold that the Fourteen Amendment of the Constitution excludes from citizenship the children, born in the United States, of citizens or subjects of other countries, would be to deny citizenship to thousands of persons of English, Scotch, Irish, German or other European parentage, who have always been considered and treated as citizens of the United States."