A DISCUSSION OF NATIVE AND NATURAL-BORN CITIZENSHIP by paralegalnm, blogging at Paralegalnm’s Blog (Feb. 24, 2011) — The concept of birthright U.S. citizenship by native-birth alone is a carryover from English law as practiced by the American colonies, but superseded by the 1790 Uniform Naturalization Act that relied on the ‘Law of Nation’s’ § 212 […]