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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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To: BladeBryan
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?

I didn't miss it at all. It's why I showed that it is NOT legally accurate according to the Supreme Court, which said native means being born in the country to citizen parents. Why did you respond TWICE to the same post of mine?? You didn't think all the way through??

310 posted on 06/24/2011 4:46:42 AM PDT by edge919
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