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To: GoLightly; David; Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
Natural born under jus sanguinus or jus soli?

Show me the constitutional reference, please?

A mere law does not overrule the constitution, the constitution is the SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND.

5,558 posted on 09/04/2008 8:25:42 PM PDT by null and void (Sarah Palin might be more conservative than even John McCain ~ Megyn Kelly, Fox News 9/2/08)
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To: null and void
Natural born under jus sanguinus or jus soli?

The US has never used a strict version of either, but instead has generally used a hybrid definition of both. The first Congress (1790) defined "natural born citizen" with an exclusion based on the father's nationality. Later law put it the opposite way in cases of illegitimate children, where the mother's nationality is the one that mattered. The government didn't want citizen claims made by the illegitimate children of our military members serving abroad.

The original intent of the clause had to do with holding office while having an allegiance to a foreign sovereign nation. Far as I can tell, Obama's only allegiance is to himself.

In an interesting twist to this topic, McCain was born in Panama, where his father was stationed when he was born. His natural born citizenship came about through a law passed after he was born that had a retroactive provision that fit cases like his.

Show me the constitutional reference, please?

Section 8. The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; -snip-

To establish a uniform rule of naturalization

5,566 posted on 09/04/2008 9:43:31 PM PDT by GoLightly
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