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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The meaning of “subject to the jurisdiction of” is firmly settled law. It is a legal concept in English Common Law, and was addressed by the Supreme Court over a hundred years ago in the Wong Kim Ark case:l, an consists of :
“the two classes of cases – children born of alien enemies in hostile occupation and children of diplomatic representatives of a foreign State – both of which, as has already been shown, by the law of England and by our own law from the time of the first settlement of the English colonies in America, had been recognized exceptions to the fundamental rule of citizenship by birth within the country. . . .

The principles upon which each of those exceptions rests were long ago distinctly stated by this court. “[/quote]There is a third class of cases- Indian tribes.  Congress passed a separate law conferring citizenship.  Somehow this group that was residing and seemingly subject to the jurisdiction did not have automatic citizenship.[/quote]

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