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To: Windflier

Sorry, but you’re simply making the argument that all people born in the circumstances contained in that statute are US CITIZENS.

There is a fundamental difference between a Natural Born US Citizen, and a US Citizen by statute.

Few of us here are arguing the Obama isn’t even a US Citizen. What we are saying is that he IS NOT a Natural Born US Citizen, which the US Constitution requires for eligibility for President.


The problem is that the Constitution in Article 2/Section 1 does not further define who a Natural Born Citizen is and the only legal guidance for defining that term is provided by the 14th Amendment and Title 8-Chapter 12 Subchapter 3, Part 1, Section 1401 of the US Code of Laws. The US Supreme Court has never entertained a case challenging who is eligible or ineligible to be President as a Natural Born Citizen and the current Supreme Court has so far refused to hear any of the cases that have been presented on the issue.


8,144 posted on 08/08/2009 12:42:22 PM PDT by jamese777
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To: jamese777

Article II, setion 1, clause 5, says what it says. A term used nowhere else, for no other purpose. Yet you just want to dismiss it like it doesn’t exist or is just the same as sometho=ing else. NO IT ISN’T> It is SPECIFIC to the president, and OBAMA can’t qualify. END of STORY.


8,171 posted on 08/08/2009 1:41:19 PM PDT by faucetman
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To: jamese777
The problem is that the Constitution in Article 2/Section 1 does not further define who a Natural Born Citizen is...

It's not a "problem" for anyone who understands the clear language and intent of the Framers.

8,320 posted on 08/08/2009 8:26:12 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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