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To: DaveTesla

>>Next you can try to claim that the Federalist Papers are
just stupid meaningless opinions until some corrupt
politically motivated court claims the Constitution means
something other than what the drafters intended.<<

They tell us how we should conduct ourselves. There are many very useful guides the Framers and other brilliant patriots left is. The Wealth Of Nations has yet to be bested.

But they are meaningless for this particular discussion.

Your point is clear: only 2nd generation (from both sides) Americans born on US soil are eligible for the Presidency. If someone in that chain marries a foreign national, the progeny from such a union are not qualified to be POTUS, since the 2nd Generation clock has again started.

This flies in the face of 100+ years of jurisprudence and probably sounds more than a little nutso to most people, but if you back your claim up from broad generalities from writings when the 14th Amendment was written, I leave you to them.

When the Left point back to this thread, I will have acquitted myself with both facts and argumentation (and a bit of direct knowledge about typesetting).

I will NOT tell my children they cannot ever be POTUS — since that is factually incorrect.

In the meantime, you refuse to answer my very clear questions. I will paraphrase Mr. Spock: “you either can not or will not do so.”

And with that I bid you good morrow. Please do note I have not insulted anyone on this thread. The same for those who disagree with me cannot be said.

What does that say about us as Conservatives? And our theoretical “high road?”


130 posted on 06/07/2011 8:55:45 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Herman Cain 2012)
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To: freedumb2003
“Your point is clear: only 2nd generation (from both sides) Americans born on US soil are eligible for the Presidency. If someone in that chain marries a foreign national, the progeny from such a union are not qualified to be POTUS, since the 2nd Generation clock has again started.”

Wrong.

The parents can be nationalized before the birth.

Natural born:
Born in the U.S.A. with two citizen parents.

133 posted on 06/07/2011 9:00:27 PM PDT by DaveTesla (You can fool some of the people some of the time......)
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To: freedumb2003
“Your point is clear: only 2nd generation (from both sides) Americans born on US soil are eligible for the Presidency. If someone in that chain marries a foreign national, the progeny from such a union are not qualified to be POTUS, since the 2nd Generation clock has again started.”

No.

If you marry a foreign national and that foreign national
becomes a citizen before the child is born then the child is a Natural Born citizen.

137 posted on 06/07/2011 9:06:15 PM PDT by DaveTesla (You can fool some of the people some of the time......)
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