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To: ctdonath2

It is not a question of citizenship, but of being a ‘natural born citizen’ which is specific language in the constitutional requirement to be POTUS. And as has been written elsewhere there is a difference between a ‘citizen by birth’ and a ‘natural born citizen.’ So significant, in fact, that the Founders who crafted the Constitution put in that very specific term for a very specific reason.


155 posted on 08/26/2009 9:56:31 PM PDT by EDINVA (A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul -- G. B. Shaw)
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To: EDINVA

Yes, they meant BORN a citizen, not naturalized.

You could be NATURALIZED and be a senator.

That’s why they put natural born in there, to distinguish that they wanted the president to be BORN in the U.S., but didn’t care if a senator was BORN in any other country on the face of the earth!!!!!!!!!!


158 posted on 08/26/2009 10:01:12 PM PDT by Technical Editor
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