Birth Certificate
The birth certificate is the initial identification document issued to parents shortly after the birth of their child. This document is issued by the individual states but is the first document establishing U.S. citizenship.
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Famous quotes containing the words birth and/or certificate:
“Nature seems at each man’s birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“God gave the righteous man a certificate entitling him to food and raiment, but the unrighteous man found a facsimile of the same in God’s coffers, and appropriated it, and obtained food and raiment like the former. It is one of the most extensive systems of counterfeiting that the world has seen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)