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To: parsifal
This pretty well tracks with the majoritarian view of the Wong Kim Ark court in 1898 , and the Ankeny court in 2009.

Wong Kim Ark, yes. Ankeny cout, not so much. The words "natural born" are nowhere to be found in that edition of Bouveirs. It uses "native" to mean born in the country. and even counts the children of foreign ambassadors as "natives". You are surely not arguing that the son of the Saudi Ambassador, born in the US of the ambassadors 4th wife, is a natural born citizen, eligible to the office of President, are you?

This section, which speaks of the children of aliens born in the US, declares them to citizens, not natural born citizens.

Natives who are citizens are the children of citizens, and of aliens who at the time of their birth were residing within the United States.

288 posted on 05/15/2010 10:40:07 PM PDT by El Gato ("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
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To: El Gato

Wong excludes them as children of diplomats.

parsy


290 posted on 05/15/2010 10:43:11 PM PDT by parsifal (I will be sent to an area where people are demanding free speech and I will not like it there. Orly.)
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