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To: conservativejoy
"I'll keep that in mind if I ever move to France."

No need to go to France. Just read the first sentence of the our Declaration of Independence.

Note the reference to Natural Law in the first sentence of our Declaration of Independence.

It is crystal clear that the Founding Fathers used the Natural Law definition of 'natural born Citizen' when they wrote Article II. By invoking "The Laws of Nature and Nature's God" the 56 signers of the Declaration incorporated a legal standard of freedom into the forms of government that would follow.

President John Quincy Adams, writing in 1839, looked back at the founding period and recognized the true meaning of the Declaration's reliance on the "Laws of Nature and of Nature's God." He observed that the American people's "charter was the Declaration of Independence. Their rights, the natural rights of mankind. Their government, such as should be instituted by the people, under the solemn mutual pledges of perpetual union, founded on the self-evident truth's proclaimed in the Declaration."

The Constitution, Vattel, and “Natural Born Citizen”: What Our Framers Knew

The Laws of Nature and of Nature's God: The True Foundation of American Law

The Supreme Court of the United States has never applied the term “natural born citizen” to any other category than “those born in the country of parents who are citizens thereof”.

MINOR V. HAPPERSETT IS BINDING PRECEDENT AS TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL DEFINITION OF A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN.

154 posted on 01/13/2016 5:55:26 PM PST by Godebert
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To: Godebert

Under the references you provide, women are not even considered citizens,


165 posted on 01/13/2016 6:10:38 PM PST by conservativejoy (Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God ...We Can Elect Ted Cruz)
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To: Godebert; conservativejoy

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Natural law is another term for Noachide law, or God’s law as expressed to Noah.

It does not deal with citizenship.

Citizenship relates to Roman law; the only society that used the term before the US was born.

Roman citizens did not have to be born in Rome, but had to have allegiance to Rome.

The apostle Shaul (Paul in the Greek) was a Roman citizen, born in Syria.


193 posted on 01/13/2016 8:38:29 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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