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To: RegulatorCountry
You realize that the children of the Founders born before the Revolution weren't natural born either, don't you? The “soil” wasn't regarded as having possessed some magical property conveying eligibility to the Presidency before the Presidency ever existed.

That simply isn't true. I don't think you understood post 833.

852 posted on 03/10/2013 4:00:24 PM PDT by Jeff Winston
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To: Jeff Winston
I don't think you understand nearly as much about this issue as you'd prefer to believe.

Go to a search engine and look up just who was the last “ grandfathered” President and when he was born. Tell me what his age would have been upon the eve of the Revolution and provide a source, any source, indicating he was naturalized.

You can't because he wasn't. Naturalized individuals have never been eligible. He was an original citizen, therefore he was under the so-called grandfather clause. There is no reference to place of birth. He was the child of a citizen of the State in which he resided, had not taken up arms against the Patriot cause nor aided the enemies of it.

Other than a few Cherokee ancestors, I descend from nothing but original citizens, some of whom were the Gernman-speaking people of whom I spoke. I know what I'm talking about.

858 posted on 03/10/2013 4:14:31 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Jeff Winston
That simply isn't true. I don't think you understood post 833.

No, we understand it perfectly. We just regard the reasoning as fatally flawed. George Washington was a "natural born subject" of His Majesty, King George III.

To allege anything else is an attempt to promulgate a lie.

1,363 posted on 03/13/2013 12:29:52 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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