The Tenth Circuit will hear oral arguments in Kobach v U.S. Election Assistance Commission, 14-3062, on Monday, August 25, according to this New York Times story. This is the case on whether Kansas and Arizona can alter the federal voter registration postcard form, to require documents to be attached that prove the applicant is a citizen.
1. Place of birth means ZERO.
2. Nation-State allegiance of father when kid is born is what counts — BUT — how many birth certificates list the nation-state of the father ???
3. Thus for USA folks —
ALLEGIANCE chain from 4 July 1776 fathers and later naturalized fathers in the 1776-1789 States and in the later 1789 USA regime. See the 1790 Naturalization Act – one of many later acts.
Difficult ONLY for 5 of 9 Scotus law MORONS.