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This paper concludes that Territorial Filipinos, or Filipinos born in the U.S. territory of the Philippine Islands during the American territorial period between 1898 and 1946, are natural-born citizens of the United States for the following reasons:
--Territorial Filipinos were all born "subject to the jurisdiction of the United States" and, reciprocally, born "in the allegiance of the United States."
--Territorial Filipinos were all born in territory over which the United States was sovereign, exercising "all rights of possession, supervision, jurisdiction, control or sovereignty in and over the territory and people of the Philippine Islands."
Territorial Filipinos belong to the still-unrecognized, now-forgotten SECOND category of citizens of the United States under the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, correctly read as the author, Senator Jacob Merritt Howard, intended the Clause he authored to convey--
"All persons subject to the jurisdiction of the United States" at birth or after birth.
Unless voluntary renounced, Territorial Filipinos retain their status they all acquired at birth under the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment as natural-born citizens of the United States.
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This paper concludes that Territorial Filipinos, or Filipinos born in the U.S. territory of the Philippine Islands during the American territorial period between 1898 and 1946, are natural-born citizens of the United States for the following reasons:
--Territorial Filipinos were all born "subject to the jurisdiction of the United States" and, reciprocally, born "in the allegiance of the United States."
--Territorial Filipinos were all born in territory over which the United States was sovereign, exercising "all rights of possession, supervision, jurisdiction, control or sovereignty in and over the territory and people of the Philippine Islands."
Territorial Filipinos belong to the still-unrecognized, now-forgotten SECOND category of citizens of the United States under the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, correctly read as the author, Senator Jacob Merritt Howard, intended the Clause he authored to convey--
"All persons subject to the jurisdiction of the United States" at birth or after birth.
Unless voluntary renounced, Territorial Filipinos retain their status they all acquired at birth under the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment as natural-born citizens of the United States.
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