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An Arizona law professor who researched the issue found that federal law at the time did not clearly indicate that children of American citizens born in the Canal Zone would automatically become U.S. citizens- which was why Congress subsequently amended the relevant law to clarify this point. According to Lipsky's last note, an undergraduate at the University of Texas first revived interest in this leftover from the Founding after he came across it in a library book in the early 1980s and began writing state legislators about it.
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An Editor As Framer
An Editor as Framer The Citizen's Constitution: An Annotated Guide By Seth Lipsky (Basic Books, 336 pages. $25.95)
THIS IS AN IMPROBABLE BOOK. But Seth Lipsky seems to specialize in improbable projects. In the 1990s, he revived a hundred -year-old Yiddish-language newspaper by creating an Englishlanguage version of it. Between 2000 ...See the full content of this document
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