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To: RC one
What part of the following excerpt is so damn hard to understand?

it means every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen.

CLUE # 1- born within

CLUE # 2- parents (plural)

90 posted on 01/30/2016 8:37:55 PM PST by freepersup (Patrolling the waters off Free Republic one dhowrallies at a time.)
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To: freepersup
Horace Binney touched on Clue #2 in his THE ALIENIGENE OF THE UNITED STATES Published in 1853. He felt the use of the plural form of the words parent or citizen was "obscure" and considered such language to be a defect in any of the naturalization laws. regarding Bingham's quote however, I think the words parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is completely unequivocal. Even one foreign parent would not meet that standard as there would clearly be a degree of allegiance to a foreign sovereignty. this is the case of Ted Cruz with his Natural born Cuban, Nationalized Canadian citizen father. It is means BHO isn't a NBC.
97 posted on 01/30/2016 8:58:50 PM PST by RC one ("...all persons born in the allegiance of the United States are natural-born citizens" US v. WKA)
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