BTW, the poster using the name Jeff Winston is no fool. His lies are very calculated and his deceptions fashioned in pure alinskyesque upside down assertion. He does however work for the father of lies a murderer from the start, as do all calculating liars.
Oh dear, look at me, I guess I have an agenda now.
I ABSOLUTELY agree. Jokes aside, he's COLD and CALCULATING.
He knows full well what he's doing. I find him to be the most disturbing of all the troll.
Post #308. Either that, or take your meds.
It was doubtless introduced (for it has now become by lapse of time merely nominal, and will soon become wholly extinct) out of respect to those distinguished revolutionary patriots, who were born in a foreign land, and yet had entitled themselves to high honours in their adopted country . United States Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution (1833)
yet it continues:
A positive exclusion of them from the office would have been unjust to their merits, and painful to their sensibilities. But the general propriety of the exclusion of foreigners, in common cases, will scarcely be doubted by any sound statesman. It cuts off all chances for ambitious foreigners, who might otherwise be intriguing for the office; and interposes a barrier against those corrupt interferences of foreign governments in executive elections, which have inflicted the most serious evils upon the elective monarchies of Europe. Germany, Poland, and even the pontificate of Rome, are sad, but instructive examples of the enduring mischiefs arising from this source.
Link (which wasn't provided), is here