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To: Windflier
No, you miss the point. The definition of "natural born" does have some leeway and interpretation-- that has to be settled by statute hopefully.

Right now, federal law and court precedence have twisted the 14th Amendment to mean that even the children of illegal aliens are citizens if they are born on U.S. soil. So the question of whether or not you need only one parent to be a citizen or both parents to be citizens at your birth has been answered differently.

34 posted on 04/13/2011 9:56:41 AM PDT by Lysandru
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To: Lysandru
You're failing to note the differentiation between Citizen, and Natural Born Citizen.

If Obama was born on US soil to Stanley Ann, and if Obama Sr. was indeed his birth father, he's a US Citizen.

He is NOT, however, a Natural Born (US) Citizen, per the Framers' understanding of that term. He would need to have been born to two US citizen parents on US soil to meet the definition.

70 posted on 04/13/2011 10:34:45 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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