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To: Bronwynn
Thanks for you cite, but you may want to add this from Wong Kim Ark:

The constitution of the United States, as originally adopted, uses the words 'citizen of the United States' and 'natural-born citizen of the United States.' By the original constitution, every representative in congress is required to have been 'seven years a citizen of the United States,' and every senator to have been 'nine years a citizen of the United States'; and 'no person except a natural-born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this constitution, shall be eligible to the office of president.' Article 2, 1. The fourteenth article of amendment, besides declaring that 'all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside,' also declares that 'no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.' And the fifteenth article of amendment declares that 'the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, or by any state, on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.'

The constitution nowhere defines the meaning of these words, either by way of inclusion or of exclusion, except in so far as this is done by the affirmative declaration that 'all persons born r naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.' Amend. art. 14. In this, as in other respects, it must be interpreted in the light of the common law, the principles and history of which were familiarly known to the framers of the constitution.

Now, please cite legislation of case law that defines natural born citizen.

141 posted on 01/19/2009 12:50:56 PM PST by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at I00 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: trumandogz

Nowhere in anything you cited does it take away from the provisions required for POTUS, a natural born citizen, and nowhere in anything you cited does it miraculously declare that citizen means natural born citizen. Nice try, but no cigar.

The Wong Kim Ark case simply decided on citizenship, which is where you get all your anchor babies from. It never made any conclusion those babies were natural born citizens. That court gave him citizenship, that’s it. I don’t know where you’re going with this, but that site is written by an attorney who studied this inside and out. Unless you can come up with something that the court specifically claimed about Wong Kim Ark being a natural born citizen, there’s no reason to drag that into this but that court didn’t say any such thing.


143 posted on 01/19/2009 12:59:06 PM PST by Bronwynn
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