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To: exit82
What do you think the original intent of the Founders was when they used the term—”natural born citizen”?

That's easy. NBC is a citizen by birth, as opposed to naturalization (trivial paperwork relating to establishing birth does not change entitlement by birth).

Thus, Cruz, Jindal, Haley, Rubio, Donald Trump, McCain, Ivanka Trump are NBC.

But Schwarzenegger, Kissinger, Granholm are not.

35 posted on 05/21/2016 3:43:31 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: cynwoody

Jindal,Haley and Rubio were born here and were anchor babies, a term that has no legal or constitutional definition. Anchor babies was a construct in the mind of Justice William O. Douglas in a minority opinion in 1982, which has been promoted by the media and by those who would profit by the importation of cheap labor ever since.

Under the 14th Amendment, their parents were subject to the jurisdiction of another country, thus they were born citizens of their parents’ country. The 14th Amendment does not change the requirements for Presidential eligibility, and its author, John Bingham, stated as much.

Cruz was a born a natural born citizen of Canada, as he was born there and first subject to their law. His father was a Cuban citizen at the time, which also gave Cuba a claim to him (see: Elian Gonzalez). His claim of American citizenship through his mother was only possible by the 1952 Immigration and Naturalization Act, because his mother met the minimum age and residency requirements in America. Otherwise he would have had no claim to American citizenship.In any event, he became a naturalized American citizen at birth, through an Act of Congress.At birth, three countries could claim him as a citizen—hardly a natural born American pedigree.

Of Trump there is no question—both parents were American at the time of his birth, and he was born in America.

As for McCain, he was born in a foreign land of American parents. However, under Vattel’s definitions, McCain’s father was in the service of the King (ie the US military), so he was natural born.

Only in the case of Chester Arthur(later found to be subterfuge), and of those exempted by the Constitution, has the natural born requirement of two American citizens parents not been met.

The Constitution allows naturalized citizens to be Senators and Congressmen, but he requirement for President is more stringent and must be so.

Otherwise the term has no meaning at all.


38 posted on 05/21/2016 4:01:54 AM PDT by exit82 (Road Runner sez:" Let's Make America Beeping Great Again! Beep! Beep!")
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