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To: BladeBryan
"It is clear enough that native-born citizens are eligible and that naturalized citizens are not." [Charles Gordon, Who Can Be President of the United States: The Unresolved Enigma, 28 Md. L. Rev. 1, 19 (1968).]

"It is well settled that 'native-born' citizens, those born in the United States, qualify as natural born." [Jill Pryor, 'The Natural-Born Citizen Clause and Presidential Eligibility', 97 Yale Law Journal 881-889 (1988).]

The point that is missed is that in the eyes of the Supreme Court, "native-born" or "native" means to be born to citizen parents. Here's Minor's definition ONCE more:

At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners.

As such, "native-born" means born to a native citizen, not born to a native land.

249 posted on 06/23/2011 7:20:09 AM PDT by edge919
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To: edge919
edge919 wrote:
[I had cited:]
"It is clear enough that native-born citizens are eligible and that naturalized citizens are not." [Charles Gordon, Who Can Be President of the United States: The Unresolved Enigma, 28 Md. L. Rev. 1, 19 (1968).]

"It is well settled that 'native-born' citizens, those born in the United States, qualify as natural born." [Jill Pryor, 'The Natural-Born Citizen Clause and Presidential Eligibility', 97 Yale Law Journal 881-889 (1988).]

The point that is missed is that in the eyes of the Supreme Court, "native-born" or "native" means to be born to citizen parents.
Even if you misunderstood Gordon, Pryor specifically explains 'native-born' citizens, as, "those born in the United States". It's such a short quote, how could you possibly miss that?
296 posted on 06/23/2011 10:18:02 PM PDT by BladeBryan
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