It takes more than a language to unify a nation
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL
Tue Feb 27 03:22:09 UTC 2007
>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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