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To: Windflier
The other definition is there are two and only two kinds of citizens:
Naturalized and Native born (which now includes being born abroad to at least one American parent) The higher definition you believe is not specifically in Article II. It's too bad the framers did not define the term.
102 posted on 01/17/2016 6:18:12 PM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Theodore R.
It's too bad the framers did not define the term.

This isn't directed at you, personally, but that's a common argument used by the 'Living Constitution' crowd to re-interpret and redefine the Constitution's clear meaning.

The Framers didn't define ANY of the terms they used in our founding charter. It was taken as a given by them, that the people understood and comprehended the plain meaning of English words.

It's only in our modern era that people have become so illiterate, or even purposely ignorant, that they've lost the ability to read the document and broadly agree on what it actually says.

112 posted on 01/17/2016 6:24:44 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Theodore R.
Regarding definitions, please see On Constitutional Eligibility.

ML/NJ

124 posted on 01/17/2016 6:30:04 PM PST by ml/nj
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