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To: antiRepublicrat
The Constitution only says "natural-born." It is up to the Congress to determine what that constitutes natural-born within any reasonable interpretation of the phrase, and we have the courts (supposedly) to keep Congress from going too astray in its determination.

Definitely not the law brother. To the contrary, Congress has no power to determine what constitutes Natural Born under the Constitution, other than to propose Amendments to the Constitution to the several states for consideration and adoption.

2,188 posted on 07/07/2008 3:26:09 PM PDT by David (...)
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To: David

Have you noticed that many here can’t agree on what natural-born means? Is it born here? Is it born here to American parents? Is it born anywhere to American parents? In any case, we know what they meant because of their first immigration law passed in 1790.


2,191 posted on 07/07/2008 4:00:13 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: David

“Definitely not the law brother. To the contrary, Congress has no power to determine what constitutes Natural Born under the Constitution”

Congress has disagreed with you since 1790.
And Supremes have gone along with them from time to time.

BTW, this thread has served a purpose: there is 100% certainty that both McCain and Obama are eligible to be President.


2,281 posted on 07/07/2008 11:04:30 PM PDT by WOSG (http://no-bama.blogspot.com/ - NObama, stop the Hype and Chains candidate)
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