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To: EnderWiggins
It never considered for a moment the definition of "natural born" as applied to those born on US soil. It merely remarks that those are "native born," and then argues that "natural born" equals native born plus the children of citizens born overseas.

Wrong again.

Morse also emphasizes the difference between the terms "native-born" and "natural-born." The dictionary, which follows the English precedents, defines "native-born" as "belonging to or associated with a particular place (as a country) by birth therein" and "natural-born" as "having a specified status or character by birth."(47) If the Founders had not wanted an expansive definition of citizenship, Morse writes, "it would only have been necessary to say, 'no person, except a native-born citizen.'"(48)

1,233 posted on 02/19/2010 4:16:51 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: DJ MacWoW
And that paragraph says exactly what I said it says. What about it do you not understand?
1,236 posted on 02/19/2010 4:27:20 PM PST by EnderWiggins
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