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To: CpnHook

Note: if the phrase, ‘grandfather clause’ gives you hysterical fits/the vapors, then do this. Just find me ***any*** quote from the Framers, re: of context, in which they say something distinctly along the lines of, ‘a person born of permanently foreign/anti-American parents would be fine for POTUS, so long as the child was born on American soil.’

Again, take your time. I’ll wait.


250 posted on 02/02/2015 9:56:24 AM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Fantasywriter
Just find me ***any*** quote from the Framers, re: of context, in which they say something distinctly along the lines of, ‘a person born of permanently foreign/anti-American parents would be fine for POTUS, so long as the child was born on American soil.’

There isn't one. Just as there isn't one in which it's distinctly said "we have concerns about the allegiance of a child born here in the U.S. who has a non-citizen parent." Nor is there really any discussion AT ALL about the meaning of "natural born citizen." The Constitutional record is devoid of any discussion about what that meant.

That's why there's a debate.

255 posted on 02/02/2015 10:48:42 AM PST by CpnHook
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