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To: Polybius

That’s the United States Code, totally irrelevant to the wishful-thinking crowd! ;-)


1,326 posted on 07/05/2008 10:03:51 AM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: Gondring
That’s the United States Code, totally irrelevant to the wishful-thinking crowd! ;-)

The Constitution, Article II, Section 1, Paragraph 5 states that the President must be a "natural born citizen" but the Constitution does not define what the term "natural born" means.

That definition is left to U.S. law and that definition has changed, in accordance with U.S. law, throughout the course of U.S. history.

The first U.S. law that addressed the term "natural born citizen" was the Naturalization Act of 1790 ..... "the children of citizens of the United States that may be born beyond Sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born Citizens".

If U.S. law does not define the term "natural born", what does?

An OB/GYN who states that candidate John Smith is not a "natural born" citizen because he delivered John Smith in 1951 in a New York City hospital by C-Section and not by vaginal delivery?

A hippie who declares that only those born through "natural childbirth" without pain meds or epidurals are "natural born citizens"?

An al Qaeda operative couple that claims that their child, born in New York while they were engaging in sabotage operations, is a "natural born" citizen but the child of a U.S. Naval officer and his wife born during an overseas accompanied tour of duty is not?

1,334 posted on 07/05/2008 10:49:38 AM PDT by Polybius
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