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To: Maurice Tift
The Supreme Court could study the matter and decide on the real meaning of 'natural born.' If both are disqualified, then I suppose the whole election would be invalid.

At present, the best I could find, we use US Code, section 1401 to define natural born:

Currently, Title 8 of the U.S. Code fills in those gaps. Section 1401 defines the following as people who are "citizens of the United States at birth:

* Anyone born inside the United States
* Any Indian or Eskimo born in the United States, provided being a citizen of the U.S. does not impair the person's status as a citizen of the tribe
* Any one born outside the United States, both of whose parents are citizens of the U.S., as long as one parent has lived in the U.S.
* Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one year and the other parent is a U.S. national
* Any one born in a U.S. possession, if one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one year
* Any one found in the U.S. under the age of five, whose parentage cannot be determined, as long as proof of non-citizenship is not provided by age 21
* Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is an alien and as long as the other parent is a citizen of the U.S. who lived in the U.S. for at least five years (with military and diplomatic service included in this time)
* A final, historical condition: a person born before 5/24/1934 of an alien father and a U.S. citizen mother who has lived in the U.S.

US Code Collection

If the SCOTUS uses this code as defining natural born then McCain is OK and Obama is not.

Another posiblility is that the SCOTUS could define natural born in a way that Obama is included even if he was born in Kenya? If that happens what is to be done about the fact that Obama used a forged document to show he was born in Hawaii? Should someone elected using fraud be allowed to serve?

117 posted on 11/20/2008 7:46:33 AM PST by TruthWillWin
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To: TruthWillWin

If citizens at birth is the same as ‘natural born.’ That seems possible. Maybe a constitutional scholar can help.


120 posted on 11/20/2008 7:55:05 AM PST by Maurice Tift (You can't stop the signal, Mal. You can never stop the signal.)
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