🤔⚖️🏛 Birthright citizenship dispute at the Supreme Court has broad implications for Trump's agenda 🤔⚖️🏛
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26 USC 4612 mentions the 50 states. It is the section for petroleum excise taxes.
8 USC Immigration and Nationality does not mention the 50 states.
In most cases, 'United States' means only the federal government, federal lands, the border, DC, Guam, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, USVI, etc.
I sent a notarized, sworn statement with my passport application in 2018 denying federal citizenship and having only state citizenship, due to birth in one of the 50 states of the Union. I received the passport.
The United States is a federated union of states and territories, as stipulated in the Constitution. Any fancy argument to the contrary is irrelevant. You can deny citizenship all you want, but unless you have declared yourself a citizen of another country, you are a U.S. citizen if you are a citizen of any state. States do not impose or certify "citizenship." Only residence.
Yeah, that's a plain reading of the 14th amendment.
State v. Fowler, 41 La. Ann. 380
6 S. 602 (1889)
Interesting news. Does this happen anywhere? I'm not sure the reading establishes that one's national citizenship is set aside. Do states declare citizenship for aliens if they haven't been naturalized as citizens of the United States?
The organization that helped me with my passport has some process for using state courts. The owner's wife is foreign born, but I haven't looked into it further.