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To: arthurus
Much as I like Bobby Jindal and think he would be good for the country I hope that he is, in fact, ruled ineligible. He is one of the best we have but he should not be granted the status of a Natural Born Citizen if his parents were not citizens when he was born.

You just contradicted yourself. If you're born a citizen then it happens at birth. You can't retroactively grant someone natural-born status. If Jindal was born here then he became a citizen at birth. You have no say in the matter. You're not the arbiter of who is a natural-born citizen and who isn't. The 14th amendment states that individuals born on U.S. soil are U.S. citizens. There are only two types of citizenship, regardless of what some on here think: born and naturalized. Jindal wasn't naturalized so he must have been born a citizen in Baton Rouge.

525 posted on 11/13/2010 4:46:28 PM PST by VADoc1980
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To: VADoc1980

You are conflating “citizen” with “natural born citizen.” The reason for the clause in the Constitution was the desire of the Founders that anyone with allegiances other than to this country should not be eligible. Conservatives are like liberals in this. They want strict rules followed but not for their own guy. I think the law actually on the books says there needs to be at least one born citizen parent.


549 posted on 11/13/2010 6:10:03 PM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson.")
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