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To: jpsb

>>>”If a law passed by congress makes you a citizen you are by definition not a natural born citizen.”

Congress legislates what is required for being naturalized. Those not requiring naturalization can only be natural born or not citizens.

Congress determines what requires naturalization and therefore what does not. So both are determined by congress. Your argument here is specious.

>>>”The son of a Cuban..”

And the son of an a U.S. citizen.

Under U.S. law, the fact that he was born to a U.S. citizen mother makes him a citizen from birth - not requiring naturalization.


325 posted on 11/15/2016 9:53:54 PM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: D-fendr

And, remember, Obama would not have been a natural-born citizen if he was born outside the U.S. because the law at the time had residency requirements his mom didn’t meet.

The law said:

”When one parent was a U.S. citizen and the other a foreign national, the U.S. citizen parent must have resided in the U.S. for a total of 10 years prior to birth of the child with FIVE of the years after the age of 14.”

That law changed in 1986. Because the specifics of what constitutes citizenship are determined by lawmakers, not by the Constitution.


344 posted on 11/15/2016 10:32:51 PM PST by JediJones (Social conservatism is the root of all conservatism.)
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