I find no fault with the introductory clause, which is simply declaratory of what is written in the Constitution, that every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural-born citizen; but, sir, I may be allowed to say further that I deny that the Congress of the United States ever had the power, or color of power to say that any man born within the jurisdiction of the United States, not owing a foreign allegiance, is not and shall not be a citizen of the United States.
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John Bingham was a 20th-century British writer. John Michael Ward Bingham, 7th Baron Clanmorris was a one time MI5 counterspy and an English novelist who published 17 thrillers, detective novels, and spy novels. Read more on Wikipedia →

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