Speech #900072087

Kennedy. Attorney General. 366 U.S. 308) it was held that the petitioner was not a citizen of the United States despite the fact that his mother was a native born citizen of the United States. The reason for the holding was that at the time of the birth of the petitioner in England the Act of Congress only authorized automatic naturalization for a person whose father was a native born citizen. but not a person whose mother had been a native born citizen. The Act of Congress was amended to include children of a mother who had lost her citizenship on March 2. 1907 (Montana v. Kennedy. supra) and again in 1934 (48 Stat 797) to include children of any native born mothers.