Does the facts of the case justify the conclusion that grace poe is a natural born citizen?Which facts?

Yes. Grace Poe is a Filipino Citizen.

Circumstantial evidence of the nationality of petitioners parents

- She was abandoned as an infant in a Roman Catholic Church in Iloilo

- Filipino features, height, flat nasal bridge, straight black hair, almond shaped eyes and oval
face.

1934 constitutional convention:

- “unknown parents”

Roxas

- “by international law, the principle that children/people born in a country of unknown
parents are citizens in this nation is recognized and is not necessary to include a provision on
the subject exhaustively.

Domestic laws on adoption also support the principle that foundlings are Filipinos

Is the international law relevant to the issue of citizenship status?what would international law
support?.

-Article 14 of the 1930 Hague Convention on Certain Questions Relating to the conflict of
Nationality Laws under which a foundling is presumed to have the “nationality of the
country of birth”
*A foundling is, until the contrary is proved, presumed to have been born on the
territory of the state in which it was found.

- Article 2 of the 1961 United Nations Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness stating
that a foundling is presumed born of citizens of the country where he is found . This gives
effect to article 15 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

- Atleast 60 countries in Asia, North and South America and Europe have passed
legislation recognizing foundlings as its citizen. Forty-two of those countries follow the
jus sanguinis regime.
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