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To: ought-six; Uncle Sham
Natural born citizen" simply means that someone who falls within the specified criteria is a citizen at birth"

Not true.

Natural Law is different than government law. Natural Law was referenced in the very first sentence of our founding document.

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

I say again natural law supersedes government law and natural law is what gave us the right to be our own nation. Government law said the founders were traitors, natural law said they were patriots. Government law says two men can get married Natural Law says marriage is between a man and a woman. Only a Natural (law) Born Citizen may constitutionally serve a President of the United States.

There are three types of citizenship
* Natural Born Citizen, two citizen parents born on soil (exceptions for foreign born if parents are abroad in service to country)
* Citizen by birth, foreign born to citizen parent(s)
* Naturalized citizen, a person made a citizen by statute.

I note on the following

The authors cite to the Naturalization Act of 1790 and ignore the fact that the Naturalization Act of 1795, with the lead of then-Rep. James Madison and with the approval of President George Washington, repealed it and specifically changed "shall be considered as natural born citizens" to "shall be considered as citizens of the United States."

James Madison the "father of the Constitution" changed the wording from "natural born citizen" to "citizen". Madison was no dope and the change was to prevent a foreign born from becoming Commander in Chief. But this also serves to illustrate that "citizen at birth" does not mean "natural born citizen".

See more at
https://cdrkerchner.wordpress.com/tag/harvard-law-review/

A natural born citizen is so because of Natural Law not government laws. Some one born on soil with two citizen parents is a natural born citizen because no other sovereign but the sovereign of the soil he was born on has any claim to his elegance.

28 posted on 01/09/2016 9:23:53 AM PST by jpsb
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To: jpsb

You are completely wrong. The “Laws of Nature” as stated in the DOI is not at all associated with the term “natural born citizen” as applied in American jurisprudence.

The Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God do not ANYWHERE establish citizenship. They do, however, apply to natural (i.e., inherent or God-given) RIGHTS.


30 posted on 01/09/2016 9:31:06 AM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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