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To: ought-six
I still don't see where this is stated as you are describing it. To me, it appears as though the 1795 Act re-defined the results of a birth out of the limits or jurisdiction of the United States from natural born citizen (1790 Act)to simply citizen(1795 Act). There was a reason this was done. Some have suggested that they simply changed the terminology and that the natural born citizen description from 1790 means exactly the same as the citizen description of 1795. If so, why? If so, why wasn't the term natural born citizen changed to citizen in the Presidential eligibility requirements of the Constitution?
24 posted on 01/09/2016 8:40:59 AM PST by Uncle Sham
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To: Uncle Sham

“Natural born citizen” simply means that someone who falls within the specified criteria is a citizen at birth (meaning that person doe not have to go through a naturalization process).

Under U.S. law, a person is a natural born citizen if he or she is born of a parent who was a U.S. citizen at the time of that birth, no matter where the physical birth occurred.

Someone on this thread — and I don’t know of it was you or not, but that is irrelevant — said that to be a natural born citizen BOTH parents had to be U.S. citizens at the birth of that person. That is just wrong. I am a natural born citizen (meaning I was automatically a U.S. citizen at my birth) even though my mother was not a U.S. citizen, and had not lived in the U.S. for five years when I was born. But, my father was a U.S. citizen, as were his parents, and his grandparents (even though two of his grandfathers fought for the Confederacy).


25 posted on 01/09/2016 8:58:48 AM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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