It takes more than a language to unify a nation

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

>Aside---someone should inform Congressman King that the rule 
>about a person born in the US automatically being a US citizen is, 
>if I remember correctly, due to a Supreme Court ruling and 
>therefore cannot be changed by Congress.
 
Not necessarily -- if the Supreme Court was interpreting a Federal
statute, then Congress (and the President) could change the interpreted
law, and the Supreme Court ruling might well be moot.

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