Addressing the provenence of the present occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

Apr 09, 2012 16:14

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obama, constituion, election, politics

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kethryvis April 10 2012, 03:16:50 UTC
The Wikipedia article on the 14th amendment cites US v. Wong Kim Ark (1898, approx. 25 years after the one you cited here) which might be helfpful:

(from en.wp, summary in Citizenship Clause)"In Wong Kim Ark the Supreme Court held that under the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, a man born within the United States to foreigners (in that case, Chinese citizens) who have a permanent domicile and residence in the United States and are carrying on business in the United States and who were not employed in a diplomatic or other official capacity by a foreign power, was a citizen of the United States."

(full article: here, which states that no legislature has taken up the issue, nor has the Court since ( ... )

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