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To: mamelukesabre

“Presently, there isn’t. Being born here is all it takes”

I think you are confusing the standards for citizenship and the job requirements for being President, Natural Born Citizen. The founders discussed the terms citizen, native born and natural born. They chose natural born as the requirement for exactly 1 job. That of POTUS. Natural Born means born of 2 US citizen parents and born on US soil. Of course we need the Supreme Court to rule on this, in terms of POTUS.


15 posted on 01/21/2011 8:25:46 AM PST by PilotDave (No, really, you just can't make this stuff up!!!)
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To: PilotDave

no, natural born applies to much more than POTUSA


18 posted on 01/21/2011 8:31:05 AM PST by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: PilotDave
"Natural Born means born of 2 US citizen parents and born on US soil."

No, that is not what it means. There is no legal basis for that claim, and you won't find anywhere the founders said that.

27 posted on 01/21/2011 8:41:04 AM PST by mlo
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To: PilotDave
That of POTUS. Natural Born means born of 2 US citizen parents and born on US soil.

Really? I guess the Republicans were just lucky that the Democrats were too stupid to realize that Spiro Agnew, born of Greek immigrants, wasn't really Vice President.

/sarcasm

Heck, according to your particularly virulent strain of Birtherism, BO and McCain were disqualified when Congress met in January, 2009. I guess the Republicans Americans Humanity were just lucky that the Democrats in the House of Representative were too stupid to realize that, and elect SanFranNan as President.

Not sarcasm

92 posted on 01/21/2011 11:48:41 AM PST by Pilsner
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