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To: Yaelle
Thus in 1986 it could be said that Barack Obama was RETROACTIVELY a natural born citizen at birth.

No it can't - that law isn't retroactive and literally can't be made retroactive. If it was, then you'd have a backwards-cascade of newly created NBCs that were already naturalized, who could then sue over all sorts of things they had to go through to get naturalized which affected their lives, careers, status, etc.

Nope - too big a mess. And that's why the Obama people didn't invoke that argument, either.

93 posted on 03/23/2015 2:02:00 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Talisker

I want to know this for sure. Earlier up thread someone said it WAS retroactive. I am just learning this right now. Until today I only knew that Obama’s mom in 1961 could definitely not confer her American citizenship upon Barack. How do we find out if the addendum is or is not retroactive?


95 posted on 03/23/2015 2:05:09 PM PDT by Yaelle
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