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To: AmericanVictory
Ummm... Native born means born in the state or country or city. I'm a native born Okie. I'm a native born Oklahoma City resident. I'm a native born American. But that doesn't make me a citizen. I'm also natural born Citizen because my parents were US citizens.

Native born means born on the soil. Anchor babies are native born, but that doesn't mean they are natural born Citizens..... Or do you think it does?

Citizenship is passed from parent to child. Or citizenship is acquired by being naturalized. I don't believe citizenship happens just because someone is born in this country regardless of who the parents are.

There are two variations of the word. Natural or Naturalized. Native isn't the same thing as either.

59 posted on 01/16/2016 6:12:00 PM PST by kjam22
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To: kjam22

In modern American English that is quite true. I was only referring to the fact that the prominent legal authority of the time of the Founding, St. George Tucker, used both terms, giving them the same meaning, in his extensive commentary on the Constitution with its extensive discussion of English law and the differences between it and American law. The principal point he made that is enormously relevant on this topic is that the law applying to subjects of a monarch has nothing to do with the law applying to citizens of a democratic republic.


90 posted on 01/16/2016 6:50:22 PM PST by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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