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To: BuckeyeTexan

Redo your research. The SCOTUS has already ruled on this.

We have had numerous candidates who have not been born in the US. e.g. Geo. Romney born in Mexico.


10 posted on 01/07/2016 12:23:01 PM PST by Calpublican (A.G. Lynch: The intent of this statement is to incite violence against radical Islam)
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To: Calpublican
Redo your research. The SCOTUS has already ruled on this.

No need. My research is quite current and correct. SCOTUS has never ruled on it.

According to the Foreign Affairs manual published by the U.S. Department of State, statutory citizenship (i.e. granted by U.S. statute at birth) may or may not be equivalent to natural-born citizenship under the U.S. Constitution.

7 FAM 1131.6-2 Eligibility for Presidency
(TL:CON-68; 04-01-1998)

a. It has never been determined definitively by a court whether a person who acquired U.S. citizenship by birth abroad to U.S. citizens is a natural born citizen within the meaning of Article II of the Constitution and, therefore, eligible for the Presidency.

(...)

d. (snip) In any event, the fact that someone is a natural born citizen pursuant to a statute does not necessarily imply that he or she is such a citizen for Constitutional purposes.


19 posted on 01/07/2016 12:36:00 PM PST by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: Calpublican

... to American parents


22 posted on 01/07/2016 12:42:01 PM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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