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**Uttephabeta** · 09-22-2012, 06:06 AM

His Majesty, since he was born in The States is the only monarch til this day, to hold American citizenship/nationality.

Plausible, but not quite true.

His Majesty was indeed born in the U.S. while his father was studying there. However, he is not a citizen by birth due to a little-known legal exception.

U.S. Supreme Court in U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898) upholds that, based on 14th amendment, all people born within the U.S. are citizens by birth, "with the exceptions or qualifications (as old as the rule itself) of children of foreign sovereigns or their ministers, or born on foreign public ships, or of enemies within and during a hostile occupation of part of our territory..."

09-22-2012, 06:06 AM	#16
Uttephabeta Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 451 Senior Member	His Majesty, since he was born in The States is the only monarch til this day, to hold American citizenship/nationality. Plausible, but not quite true. His Majesty was indeed born in the U.S. while his father was studying there. However, he is not a citizen by birth due to a little-known legal exception. U.S. Supreme Court in U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898) upholds that, based on 14th amendment, all people born within the U.S. are citizens by birth, "with the exceptions or qualifications (as old as the rule itself) of children of foreign sovereigns or their ministers, or born on foreign public ships, or of enemies within and during a hostile occupation of part of our territory..."
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