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To: John Valentine

“A person born on US soil is not a natural born citizen if both parents were not citizens - not necessarily natural born ones themselves - naturalized would do, but they must BOTH be citizens of the US.”

Reread what I said, which was the effect of the Constitutional restriction.


13 posted on 07/19/2009 7:14:49 AM PDT by PurpleMountains
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To: PurpleMountains

What you wrote was: “Our Constitution clearly states that a person born on foreign soil when only one parent is a USA citizen cannot become President.”

Not only does the Constitution say no such thing, what it does say can’t even be stretched to mean what you wrote. If you really take seriously what the framers meant by “natural born citizen”, reading Orly Taitz’s latest pleadings will provide a very detailed and well referenced explication, the framers wanted both a birth on American soil, and both citizen parents. By their reasoning and understanding, anyone born overseas would not be natural born. And in fact, my eldest son, born in Indonesia to American parents, is not, to the best of my knowledge, eligible to the Presidency.


61 posted on 07/19/2009 12:17:29 PM PDT by John Valentine
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