On this “Natural Born Citizen” Issue, Part II: From William Learned Marcy to Wong Kim Ark
Promoted from diaries. Having discussed in Part I of my series the view of Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution‘s “natural born citizen” requirement in the days of the early republic, and provided a digression on the role English common law played in American law, it is now time to look at how the clause was viewed in the latter half of the | Read More »
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