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To: Uncle Chip

The following shall be nationals and citizens of the United States at birth:

(e) a person born in an outlying possession of the United States of parents one of whom is a citizen of the United States who has been physically present in the United States or one of its outlying possessions for a continuous period of one year at any time prior to the birth of such person;

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode08/usc_sec_08_00001401——000-.html


27 posted on 03/01/2010 5:53:59 AM PST by ari-freedom (Rush:Remember to put your faith in ideas and not people. People will always, always disappoint you!)
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To: ari-freedom
Where does that say anything about Natural born citizen?

Bam has admitted to having dual citizenship. That disqualifies him.

29 posted on 03/01/2010 6:00:51 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: ari-freedom
"The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners. Some authorities go further and include as citizens children born within the jurisdiction without reference to the citizenship of their parents. As to this class there have been doubts, but never as to the first. For the purposes of this case it is not necessary to solve these doubts. It is sufficient for everything we have now to consider that all children born of citizen parents within the jurisdiction are themselves citizens." [Minor versus Happersett]
39 posted on 03/01/2010 6:14:51 AM PST by Uncle Chip (TRUTH : Ignore it. Deride it. Allegorize it. Interpret it. But you can't ESCAPE it.)
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To: ari-freedom
The following shall be nationals and citizens of the United States at birth: (e) a person born in an outlying possession of the United States of parents one of whom is a citizen of the United States who has been physically present in the United States or one of its outlying possessions for a continuous period of one year at any time prior to the birth of such person; http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode08/usc_sec_08_00001401——000-.html

But NOT A natural born citizen, a very special requirement placed in the constitution by our founding fathers.
73 posted on 03/01/2010 7:04:27 AM PST by algernonpj (He who pays the piper . . .)
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To: ari-freedom

http://www.theobamafile.com/_eligibility/IssuesObamaCircumstances.htm


160 posted on 03/01/2010 10:39:52 AM PST by 70th Division (I love my country but fear my government!)
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To: ari-freedom
(e) a person born in an outlying possession of the United States of parents one of whom is a citizen of the United States who has been physically present in the United States or one of its outlying possessions for a continuous period of one year at any time prior to the birth of such person;

What "outlying possession of the US did you have in mind for his birthplace?

Besides that's a statutory definition for one possible way to be a citizen at birth, but it was passed under Congress power to define a uniform rule of naturalization, making such persons "naturalized at birth" for Constitutional purposes, and the Supreme Court has so ruled. (In relation to some of those "citizen at birth" rules not being gender neutral, rather depending on whether it was the mother or father who was the US citizen.)

349 posted on 03/01/2010 11:00:48 PM PST by El Gato ("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
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