***SCRUBBED*** Wikipedia page on NATURAL BORN Citizenship completely redacted after release of OBAMA BC | |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1348982 United States 04/29/2011 03:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: ***SCRUBBED*** Wikipedia page on NATURAL BORN Citizenship completely redacted after release of OBAMA BC Among other revisions, the dissenting opinion from the Kim Wong Ark case hase been removed from the Wiki page, including the following: The dissent argued that the meaning of the “subject to the jurisdiction” language found in 14th Amendment was the same as that found in the 1866 Civil Rights Act, which provides: “All persons born in the United States, and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States.” On the meaning of “natural born citizen,” the dissent also cited the treatise on international law by Emerich de Vattel entitled “The Law of Nations”:[23] "The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens."[24] The dissenters also noted, arguing that birth on the soil was not sufficient to grant citizenship at birth, that: "it is unreasonable to conclude that 'natural born citizen' applied to everybody born within the geographical tract known as the United States, irrespective of circumstances; and that the children of foreigners, happening to be born to them while passing through the country, whether of royal parentage or not, or whether of the Mongolian, Malay, or other race, were eligible to the presidency, while children of our citizens, born abroad, were not".[22] |