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To: Tau Food

“So, we have two individuals...”

So, off the top of my head I named two individuals. Do you really expect me to go back and name them all? By the way, I’m still waiting on your response to my question about naming people who did NOT.

“...did either of those two claim that we must confine...”

I don’t know about you, but if there’s a definition of a word or term, don’t you have to “confine” your interpretation to that definition? It used to be that way back in the day, but, if you live in the world of liberalspeak where we live now, there is no specific definition to any word or term. Words just mean what you want them to mean at the time you use them. It doesn’t really matter what the definition of “is” is.

“So, I guess the fact that we have a sitting president who does not conform to what you claim would have been Vattel’s definition of “natural born citizen” is what is.”

Yes, and you see the results. Doesn’t mean that we can’t try to change it.

” He’s an American citizen and I know of nothing that he’s done to suggest that he feels that he owes Canada any taxes, any allegiance, any loyalty, or anything at all.”

Well, as long as you “feel” that he “feels” that that way, I guess that’s all that really matters.


473 posted on 08/29/2013 8:05:29 AM PDT by Larry - Moe and Curly (Loose lips sink ships.)
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To: Larry - Moe and Curly
I'm satisfied that your responses have demonstrated as much as mine that looking to an eighteenth century Swiss philosopher (Vattel) to define natural born citizen is more a matter of choice than compulsion. For me, it takes more than a showing that some of society's elite had either French or English versions of Vattel's book in their libraries to bind Americans (then or now) to Vattel's "special little meaning" for the NBC clause.

I encourage everyone to develop his own views and to present as effectively as he can his NBC pitch to the voters/electors, the folks who select our presidents. It's obviously an important issue.

Good luck. ;-)

475 posted on 08/29/2013 8:30:18 AM PDT by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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