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    Saturday, December 10, 2005

    Bill would end 'birthright citizenship

    WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Some conservatives in Congress want to deny automatic U.S. citizenship to children born on U.S. soil whose parents are illegal immigrants.

    posted by TheFuriousGourmet | 6:11 AM

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    Blogger domingoarong said...

    GOP officials, Rep. Tom Tancredo and John C. Eastman should reread the Citizenship Clause.

    The phrase "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof," is enclosed within a PAIR OF COMMAS, with the first comma placed before the coordinating conjunction "and."

    An element enclosed within a PAIR OF COMMAS is "non-restrictive," meaning the phrase does not modify or qualify the element preceding; a comma-plus-coordinating-conjunction is regarded as a "single punctuation mark."

    Another case of being "hanged by a pair of commas"?

    Grammatically, the phrase is actually intended to read: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and [all persons] subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and [citizens] of the State wherein they reside."

    The Clause thus confers a SECOND, still unrecognized, category of citizens of the United States--"All persons subject to the jurisdiction thereof."

    Senator James Doolittle mentions this category during the debate (at p. 2897, 1st col., Congressional Globe, 39th Congress, 1st Session, May 30, 1866) with the phrase "all persons subject to the jurisdiction of the United States" in quotation marks:

    "But, sir, the Senator has drawn me off from the immediate question before the Senate. The immediate question is whether the language he [Senator Jacob Howard, the author] uses, 'all persons subject to the jurisdiction of the United States,' includes these Indians..."

    Based on the remarks by Judiciary Committee Chairman Senator Lyman Trumbull and Senator Howard (the author) during the debate, this SECOND category conveys the meaning:

    "All persons owing allegiance within the extent or territory over which the constitutional power of the United States extends"--or birth within the realm and within the allegiance.

    At that time in 1866, this SECOND CATEGORY embraced "persons" NOT "in the United States" but within:

    --the 12 ceded territories awaiting statehood
    --the 11 Confederate States awaiting readmission to the Union
    --the District of Columbia.

    2:02 AM  

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