The Constitution itself declares that a child born within the United States of parents who are not citizens and not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States is an alien. It is therefore useless to enact it in a statute. The existing law also provides that if the father naturalizes or declares his intention and dies. it naturalizes the mother and minor Children. which is all that is required. The excistlng law provides. too. that children born out of the j urisdietiou of the United States of fathers who are citizens of the United States shall be citizens of the United States. (Revised Statutes. section 1993.) This legislation sufficiently covers the case of both classes of minor children. and the legislation proposed in the bill could only create embarrassment and complication. The paragraph in the bill relating to married women introduces another unwarrantable novelty into the law of American citizenship.
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