LE 319 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: United States V. Wong Kim Ark, Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Honda N360
14 Feb 2019
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By birth or by derived from your parents. Jus soli - 14th amendment - latin for of the soil; the law of the of the place of ones birth. Jus sanquinis - one descends or ones heritage. Ending birthright citizenship for those born to aliens in the united states. Enacted to bring the former slaves to count as citizens. Since that time the 14th amendment it has been challenged in the case of wong kim ark; doesn"t matter who your parents are if you are born in the united states. Ark was born in the citizens, but his parents were chinese nationals. If someone occupied the us and the occupying party had a kid, that kid is not a us citizens. If parents were naturalized before child"s 18th birthday, then child is a usc. The child would file n-600 for certification and passport. A lot of people g the good moral average citizen.
