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To: Jeff Winston
Persons born US citizens abroad are almost certainly natural born citizens as well.

Oh, is that so? By what mechanism does this occur in a country where, as you so vehemently claim, citizenship is determined solely by place of birth?

1,286 posted on 03/12/2013 5:09:18 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry
Oh, is that so? By what mechanism does this occur in a country where, as you so vehemently claim, citizenship is determined solely by place of birth?

You continue to misrepresent me.

Of course.

The most basic rule of citizenship has ALWAYS been by place of birth. James Madison, the father of our Constitution, said that "place of birth" was "WHAT APPLIED IN THE UNITED STATES."

That does not and never did mean that one could not ALSO become a natural born citizen by being born to US citizen parent(s) abroad.

The First Congress made it a priority to explicitly STATE that such children born US citizens abroad were ALSO natural born citizens, and hence eligible to the Presidency.

That's why the correct historical and legal understanding of natural born citizen is as follows:


1,287 posted on 03/12/2013 5:13:18 PM PDT by Jeff Winston
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