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Citizenship
- Books on Google that define “natural born citizen”
- State Department regulations on citizenship
- Acquisition and Retention of U.S. Citizenship and Nationality – US Department of State
- Acquisition of U. S. Citizenship by a Child Born Abroad – US Department of State
- The Natural-Born Citizen Clause and Presidential Eligibility: An Approach for Resolving Two Hundred Years of Uncertainty – Jill Pryor, Yale Law Journal 1988
- ‘Natural Born’ in the USA: The striking unfairness and dangerous ambiguity of the Constitution’s presidential qualifications clause and why we need need to fix it [No known public link–available from Lexis Nexis] – Boston University Law Review 2005
- The Origins and interpretation of the Presidential Eligibility Clause in the U.S. Constitution: Why Did the Founding Fathers Want the President To Be a “Natural Born Citizen” and What Does this Clause Mean for Foreign-Born Adoptees?
- Defining “American” Birthright Citizenship and the Original Understanding of the 14th Amendment
- The strange case of Chester Alan Arthur – Venia Legendi blog
- United States v Wong Kim Ark and dissenting opinion
- Wong Kim Ark, US v, 169 US 649 (1898) Appellants Brief (USA)
- Naturalization Act of 1790
- The Heritage Guide to the Constitution
- Cornell Annotated Constitution
- Senator John McCain and natural born citizenship, Michigan Law Review
- Dual Citizenship case links
- Dual Citizenship FAQ
- Indonesian Naturalization Law
- DNC Obama Hawaii Cert 2008 – DNC Certification of Obama’s eligibility
- YouTube – Exactly What IS a Natural Born Citizen?
- Attorney General Edward Bates, Opinion of Attorney General Bates on Citizenship (1852).
- Citizenship of Children Born in the United States of Alien Parents, 10 U.S. Op. Atty. Gen. 328, 1862 WL 1393 (U.S.A.G.), available on Westlaw (paid subscription).
- Letter from Mr.McLane (US) to Mr. Flourens (France) re: US citizens, in PAPERS RELATING TO THE FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES, Part 1
- Walter Dellinger (Assistant Attorney General) before House subcommittee December 13, 1995
- Who May Be President? Constitutional Reinterpretation of Article II’s ‘Natural Born’ Presidential Eligibility Clause, J. Rebekka Susan Bonner
- Who Can Be President Of The United States: The Unresolved Enigma, 28 MD L. Rev. 1,1 (1968), Charles Gordon
- The U.S. Constitution Online
- Daniel P. Tokaji, Commentary, The Justiciability of Eligibility: May Courts Decide Who Can Be President?, 107 Mich. L. Rev. First Impressions 31 (2008)
- Originalism and the Natural Born Citizen Clause, 107 Mich. L. Rev. First Impressions 22 (2008)
- Senate Judiciary Committee hearing hearing on OCTOBER 5, 2004 Orrin G. Hatch
- Rawle’s View of the Constitution
- McCarthy Senate Hearings 1953-54
- House Judiciary Committee Testimony June 25, 1997 – Dawn E. Johnsen
- Citizenship in the United States, Frederick Van Dyne
- S. Hrg. 108-694 –” Maximizing Voter Choice: Opening the Presidency to Naturalized Americans, October 5, 2004 – TEXT 115K | PDF 3.3M
- The Law of Nations, de Vattel (1852 translation)
- Le Droit des gens, de Vattel (1863 edition with footnote to section 212)
- The Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787
- Outline of an International Code – David Dudley Field
- British Nationality Act 1948
- Kenya Independence Act 1963
- British Nationality Act 1981
- The Constitution of Kenya
- INA: ACT 309 – CHILDREN BORN OUT OF WEDLOCK
- Gabriel J. Chin, Commentary, Why Senator John McCain Cannot be President: Eleven Months and a Hundred Yards Short of Citizenship, 107 Mich. L. Rev. First Impressions 1 (2008)
- TexasDarlin, Article II, and Obama’s Eligibility: Challenge Accepted
- What “Subject to the Jurisdiction Thereof” Really Means – The Federalist Blog
- Birthright Citizenship & the Civic Minimum
- Natural Born Citizen – Leo C. Donofrio’s blog
- Historical breakthrough – Proof: Chester Arthur concealed he was a British subject – Natural Born Citizen – Donofrio
- How a British Subject became President of the United States, A. P. Hinman (1884).
- Natural Born Citizen (former Donofrio Blog)
- Is Barack Obama Natural Born? – Op Ed News
- Natural-born Citizen Defined – P. A. Madison
- Flores-Villar v United States – ScotusBlog
- Obama affidavit of eligibility, Arizona, 2008 – NBC blog
- U.S. Citizenship of Persons Born in the United States to Alien Parents — Congressional Research Service
- Sir William Blackstone and the New Republic: A Study of Intellectual Impact – Dennis R. Nolan, University of South Carolina
- Decoding the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause: Unlawful Immigrants, Allegiance, Personal Subjection, and the Law to appear in the Washburn Law Journal (Vol. 51, No. 2, 2012), by Patrick J. Charles.
- Citizenship in the United States Under the Fourteenth Amendment, Marshall B. Woodworth, The American Law Review.
- Barack Obama — Guilty of being President while Black. Nolu Chan.
- John Greschak’s essay on the meaning of natural born citizen with images from old editions of The Law of Nations at the Internet Archives.
- Text of the Burlingame-Seward Treaty of 1868 with China regarding privileges and immunities of Americans and Chinese traveling in the other country.
- The Naturalization Act of 1802
- Paschal’s Annotated Constitution
- Citations from the founding generation relative frequency of Vattel and Blackstone
