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To: JCBreckenridge
This is all just speculation. What does native mean? Born in the United States.

That is what the word "native" means NOW. In the past, it didn't have the same meaning. Justice Waite (Minor v Happersett) explains what "native" meant in 1875.

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.

What evidence is there for a distinction drawn that you are drawing here? Absolutely none.

There is plenty of evidence for a distinction being drawn. Claiming there is none is either ignorant or dishonest.

1,128 posted on 03/11/2013 2:35:53 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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To: DiogenesLamp

Great argument - except Waite distinguishes between those born in America, and those who were not born in America.


1,166 posted on 03/11/2013 4:53:22 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge (Texas is a state of mind - Steinbeck)
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