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Scrivener7

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3. Yep. I'm a seventh generation American. If my sixth great grandparents did not have birth rights,

Reply to G_j (Original post)

Fri Jun 27, 2025, 11:24 AM

Jun 2025

that means their children were born to non-citizens. If those children also don't have birth rights to citizenship, they are not citizens either, nor were their children, nor their children, nor their children, and so on down to me.

So who is actually a citizen, then?

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Birth rights, How far back are we going? [View all] G_j Jun 2025 OP

How far back? The Middle Ages. marble falls Jun 2025 #1

The ruling wasn't on Birth Right Citizenship Abnredleg Jun 2025 #2

Yep. I'm a seventh generation American. If my sixth great grandparents did not have birth rights, Scrivener7 Jun 2025 #3

I think the indigenous people should decide.............. Lovie777 Jun 2025 #4

The decision wasn't about birthright citizenship. Ocelot II Jun 2025 #5

eos dweller Jun 2025 #7

Baron, Traitor tot, Eric, Ivanka LW1977 Jun 2025 #6